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...presidential report at the outset of 1953, University President James B. Conant ’14 announced his ambiguous stance on the probe...
...There are no known communists on the Harvard staff,” Conant said, adding that he hoped that the government would “ferret out” communists devoted to subversive activity. He would not support the appointment of a communist adherent in any educational environment, he said...
...same time, Conant said he feared that the congressional investigation of faculty members would create an oppressive atmosphere at the University that would quash its academic freedom...
...other universities, taking the Fifth was considered an admission of guilt and grounds for dismissal, and earlier in February, Conant had indicated that Harvard would follow a similar policy...
...focus on Harvard only intensified in June when Pusey, the young president of Lawrence College, replaced Conant as University president...