Word: conant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant then went on to reaffirm the "no inquiry" policy set forth by Grenville Clark in letters published in the Alumni Bulletin this week...
President Conant said yesterday, "As long as I am President of the University, I can assure you there will be no policy of inquiry into the political views of the members of the staff and no watching over their activities as citizens...
President Conant first repeated his stand against Communist Party members as teachers, applying it unmistakably to Harvard this time...
...Controversy and vigorous discussion are the very breath of life of a university." President Conant added. "This has frequently led to criticisms to those who view the academic scene from a distance...
...writing to President Conant by the same mail expressing deep regret that, if the reports be correct, he approves any such recommendation. And saying that it seems to me a repudiation of the best traditions of intellectual liberty and personal honor which Harvard has in the past so nobly upheld. I also earnestly urged his reversal of such reported contravening of our academic ideals. Rev. Eliot White '92 Episcopal Diocese of New York...