Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through what Columbia Provost Albert C. Jacobs called "administrative oversight," Fast was given permission to speak on the campus on October...
...months later Provost Jacobs said Fast would not be allowed to make a scheduled speech before the P.C.A. on December 12. Columbia's policy, Jacobs said, was not to allow men under sentence or indictment to speak at the University...
...Columbia Groups Protest...
...large number of Columbia groups protested this decision. The P.C.A. called it a "complete break with the liberal traditions of American education," and noted that Professor Lyman Bradley, convicted with Fast for contempt, had been allowed to speak at Columbia in the summer...
Professor Randall of Columbia University points out a warning in the Washington action: "one wonders how a self-respecting teacher could consider future service in an institution in which the guarantees universally associated with 'academic freedom' seem to be so completely exposed to the vagaries of political pressure...