Word: conant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town's Chamber of Commerce recently wired President Conant, beseeching him to select the cow-to-be honored...
President Conant has at last clearly stated his position on the issue of the right of Communists to teach in American schools and colleges. Members of the Communist Party of the United States should not be employed as teachers. Such membership . . . involves adherence to doctrines and discipline completely inconsistent with the principles of freedom on which American education depends. Such membership, and the accompanying surrender of intellectual integrity, render an individual unfit to discharge the duties of a teacher in this country...
This is the statement President Conant made along with 19 other members of the Educational Policies Commission, a group sponsored jointly by the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators. Since the Commission statement was released yesterday, President Conant has made it plain that he stands behind that position, and that the takes exception to no part...
...hard to believe. If President Conant himself had not personally confirmed his complete agreement with the Commission's policy statement, it would be almost impossible to believe. The CRIMSON respects and admires the President both as an individual and as a national figure. President Conant and his administration have fought the enemies of academic freedom. They have helped make the University one of the stronger positive forces in this country protecting the privileges of an unhampered search for knowledge and truth. It is therefore with regret and disappointment that the CRIMSON finds itself opposed to President Conant on an issue...
Communism is also a point of view. It is a point of view many intelligent men have honestly reached. And it is a point of view that President Conant and his colleagues on the Educational Policies Commission want studied in American schools and colleges. But the Commission would prevent intelligent Communists from teaching that point of view--not because they might be incompetent teachers, not because they might propagandize or exclude unfavorable textbooks, but because they might propagandize or exclude unfavorable textbooks, but because they would as communists automatically do these things. This is an attitude of fear. The Commission...