Word: browderism
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Olum called attention to recent actions by other universities limiting academic freedom, chiefly at Chicago, where students are not allowed to criticize the administration directly, and at Ohio State, where a Marxist club was banned. Mentioning the refusal by the University to allow Earl Browder to use a lecture hall for a speech, he remarked that academic freedom was especially threatened during wartime...
Invitations to Earl Browder, U. S. Communist No. 1, to make a speech before Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth undergraduate societies were rescinded by university authorities because he was under U. S. indictment for passport fraud. When Yale undergraduates also invited him, urbane President Charles Seymour said he would not interfere. His reason (laid down two years ago in his inaugural address): "The London policemen in Hyde Park have learned that the surest method of exposing incompetent charlatanism is to give the charlatan a protected forum...
...Browder and the Dies Committee will be under the close scrutiny of the recently formed Civil Liberties Committee of the Student Union, according to David Fleishman '41, chairman of the group...
...hope of the Committee to make inquiries into the violations of civil liberties during the present and the last wars and to publish these in a pamphlet. In this connection Fleishman stated that undoubtedly the Browder question and the Dies Committee would come under consideration...
...meeting Browder said, "It was a model of orderliness and afterwards assembled students on the street cheered me on my departure...