Word: campuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When four New York City colleges banned author Howard Fast from speaking on their premises in December, 1947, they touched off a dispute over who may speak when and where in New York universities, a dispute which even now is disturbing the Brooklyn College campus...
Through what Columbia Provost Albert C. Jacobs called "administrative oversight," Fast was given permission to speak on the campus on October...
...legislature's un-American Affairs Committee, under the chairmanship of Albert F. Canwell, turned its full attention to "subversive" activities on the U of W campus. Canwell, a photographer before his election, said, "the last hope of freedom rests with us." One month later, Canwell outlined his method of nourishing that last hope. "Counsel (for the defendants) . . . may not make objections, cross examine or make speeches...
There is no way of calculating the reluctance of Washington faculty members now to exchange freely ideas with each other or with students. Professor Henry D. Aiken of Harvard, a former University of Washington faculty member, stated, "It is a terrible thing when men on a university campus have been isolated from one another by fear. A great University has been badly mauled...
...reason given was an old rule that instructors could not take part in political activity. Hale said that Parker had taken part in politics "both on and off the campus." Evidently Hale believed that Parker's action--with respect to the leaflets and the rally--had violated the conditions Hale set forth in March...