Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless the professor are immediately reinstated, the letter continued, the dismissals, "shocking repudiations" of the traditional American concepts of democracy and academic freedom, will furnish a precedent for the dismissal of any instructor "for any personal beliefs and associations."
The legislator said that his bill was a protection for academic freedom rather than restriction of it. "Academic freedom is dead where Communism exists," he explained. "We are not free to tolerate what means destruction of freedom."
Herbert Phillips, one of the three professors fired from the University of Washington in the furor this month over communism and academic freedom, is tentatively scheduled to address the Harvard Philosophy Club early in May. He will discuss Moore's "Universals."
In asking Phillips to speak, "the Philosophy Club is in no way endorsing his views," Robert E. Dewey 3G, president of the club, said last night. "We firmly believe, however, in the principle of academic freedom," he added.
(1.) I do not believe that an instructor should use course time to propagandize for any political group (2.) I believe it an academic abuse of the first magnitude to make disparaging references to a local public official and to recommend the programme of a political group without affording opportunity...