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Nine scholars who had been thinking since a year ago last April about how a Tammany judge canceled the appointment of Bertrand Russell to teach at the College of the City of New York (TIME, April 8, 1940) have finally boiled over. This week they cut loose in an angry book, The Bertrand Russell Case (Viking; $2.50). Their flattering finding: the Russell case ranks with the persecutions of Socrates, John Huss and Joan of Arc, as one of history's most infamous episodes...
...every error which opportunity presents. ... At City College there must be nothing said or read about Biblical men who looked with lust upon female flesh. . . . The student body at City College consists of males, chaste or unchaste, some of them over 18, with morals poised so delicately that, if Bertrand Russell expounds mathematics or philosophy, they are impelled to abduct and rape, while if he does not appear in their midst, woman's virtue knows no peril...
...annual public Ingersoll Lecture given this year as part of the visitation day at the Divinity School which over a hundred local elergymen and alumni attended, Professor Whitehead was for 13 years on the faculty of the University of London and has written several books, one in collaboration with Bertrand Russell, on subjects of philosophy...
...Bertrand Russell is a mighty clever philosopher, too clever I think. His theodicy so far as I make out consists in being angry with the gods for not existing, because if they did he would like to break their windows...
...days later the Board of Higher Education met behind closed doors. To many New Yorkers, the board itself, which last year tried to appoint Bertrand Russell as a professor at City College, looked Red. Its chairman is liberal Author-Editor Ordway Tead (Harper). After five hours' debate, the board emerged with a unanimous and unprecedented resolution: "It is the purpose of the Board of Higher Education not to retain as members of the collegiate staffs members of any Communist. Fascist or Nazi group or society, or to retain any individual who, or member of any group which advocates, advises...