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CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 14 (UP)-At a Massachusetts Institute of Technology meeting which was almost without incident, Communist Earl Browder told a capacity audience today that by a modern miracle the League of Nations " has risen from the tomb and speaks with a boldness and vigor it never had when alive...
...Beta Kappa on its call for a committee to preserve academic freedom. The need for such a committee grows daily more apparent as college after college after college, with the exceptions of Yale and M. I. T., follows Harvard's rules of etiquette in refusing to allow Earl Browder to speak before student organizations in college buildings. We have, as yet, no assurance that the Harvard authorities are convinced that they "made a silly mistake in the Browder case" nor that they will not be encouraged by their success as a model for etiquette to take further steps...
...service to the American desire to keep out of war is no guarantee against our involvement in war, so lip service to civil liberties is no guarantee against their suppression. We feel that there has been sufficient evidence of infringement of academic freedom throughout the nation--witness the Browder case at Harvard and the recent Dies Committee attacks on the American Student Union--to make the formation of such a committee as PBK has called for a wise precaution at this time...
...Corporation's action in establishing the committee to be chosen from the Faculty and the Student Council followed angry demands by college organizations for reconsideration of the Browder...
...establishment of the College committee to examine appeals for use of halls was interpreted as a partial concession to the various groups attacking the Browder ban. Appointment of the committee will be made by President Conant, an announcement of which is expected this week...