Word: conant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While I write at Mr. Conant's suggestion, I do so only as an individual--although I do believe that my convictions are held by the vast majority of Harvard...
Nothing of this character will happen under Mr. Conant. There will be no harassment of professors for engaging in open and legal meetings. There will be no apparatus of inquiry and "closer watch." The harm done by the effort necessary to discover even a single clan-destine Party Member would outweigh any possible benefit. To go beyond that by searching for "reasonable grounds" concerning "loyalty," would still more disrupt Harvard or any free university...
...Conant's joined in a splendid public statement on Communist teachers today gives the reassurance I was seeking--that Harvard is alive to that menace. Appropriate steps to implement that policy are now in order. I sincerely hope that the principle of our statute, taken from the Federal loyalty program, may contribute to the solution of this exceedingly difficult problem...
...three distinguished members of the Harvard family have entered into the controversy. On June 8 the Educational Policies Commission, in a report signed by President Conant, asked for the exclusion of Communist Party members from teaching. Because it also condemned irresponsible labeling of non-Communists as "Reds" and "Communists," the Commission thought its report would strengthen, not weaken, integrity on the campus...
...Clark and the Corporation have now told Mr. Ober and others who would use Mr. Conant's stand on Communism as an excuse for heresy-hunting that at Harvard "there will be no apparatus of inquiry and 'closer watch.' The harm done by the effort to discover even a single clandestine Party Member would outweigh any possible benefit...