Word: bender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have no desire to revive an old controversy, particularly when for once the CRIMSON and the Dean agree on a basic, issue. Nevertheless, in justice to the Faculty Committee on Student Activities I can not let certain statements in your editorial of last Monday entitled "Bender on Communists" stand unchallenged...
...reply to these correspondents, Dean Bender issued a statement re-affirming the right of any recognized student group to invite to Harvard any speaker it wishes. The statement read in part...
...Dean Bender's statement is a welcome one, especially in contrast to his action in the New Student case last spring. At that time, the Dean's Office refused to grant recognition as a Harvard publication to the left-wing magazine principally on the grounds that a high percentage of its contents was written by non-Harvard authors. Yet literary magazines have often printed issues written entirely outside Harvard without protest from University Hall. Thus the political content of The New Student seemed to be the key factor in determining University Hall's stand against the magazine...
...light of this background, the recent statement was a very encouraging one. At a time when academic freedom in particular, and freedom of speech in general, are taking a bad beating because of the current wave of anti-communist hysteria, Dean Bender's strong re-affirmation of faith in the free exchange of ideas is a welcome reassurance that there are those who will not let themselves be brow-beaten by J. Parnell Thomas--or Fulton Lewis...
...question of a junior year abroad will come up before the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy within a month, Dean Bender said last night. If passed, it will probably go into effect next fall...