Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Conant transitioned fluidly from the Ivy covered walls of Cambridge to the halls of power in government. After the war, he continued to serve Washington, sitting on the Educational Policy Committee--a body of academic experts who in 1949 issued a report calling for the expulsion of Communists from...
The ramifications for academic freedom were, at best, murky. Crimson President John G. Simon '50 met twice with Conant in an attempt to understand the report's implications for Harvard professors, and Crimson editors penned a staff editorial calling for assurances that no systematic scouring of the Faculty would ensue...
Lilienthal says that the debate over academic freedom aroused student passions as well, especially after The Crimson ran a series of articles chronicling the faculty dismissals at schools around the country.
For those who tuned in to the national news on June 8, what they heard left them wondering about the future of academic freedom at Harvard.
Only several years down the road, during the hysteria produced by the red-baiting campaign of Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, Harvard professors would face a serious threat to their academic freedom.