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...main argument in the Bertrand Russell controversy revolves around the "free speech issue." It should be remembered that Harvard as an educational institution has as its duty not the maintenance of an open forum for everybody with eccentric ideas. This is a propagandistic function and those who wish to indoctrinate special issues should hire a hall. Harvard has a higher purpose: to lead its students, by a consideration of unbiased thoughts presented by men of moral integrity, to make up their minds on controversial issues. This is the educational function...
...ANGELES--The Rev. I. R. Wall, Baptist minister, filed suit today against officials of the University of California at Los Angeles to force the ouster of Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, from his professorship...
...going to have four lawyers working on the case and I can promise action in the courts within the next two weeks," threatened Thomas A. Dorgan, Boston city legislative agent, last night in a reply to the Corporation's reaffirmation of the appointment of Bertrand Russell to the post of William James lecturer, beginning next fall...
...There is such a thing as mental leprosy as well as physical leprosy. As the physically afflicted are segregated from society to prevent their spreading the disease, so Bertrand Russell must be prevented from teaching at Harvard," Dorgan concluded...
...President and Fellows have let Boston's professional moral-minders know that they are not going to back down on the Bertrand Russell issue. This is entirely in line with Harvard's traditional disregard for public opinion in picking its teachers. What is significant is that Harvard is not hollering for free speech, a phrase which dominated the recent New York controversy...