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...January--President James B. Conant resigns to become United States High Commissioner of Germany. Provost Buck takes over his duties...
...freedom, held firm against the general craze to find subversive scapegoats and against the particular abuses of Senator McCarthy. Vital questions were thrust upon the University regarding the ambigious figure of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, at a time of uncertainty caused by the resignation of President Conant. Harvard's action in the Furry case, its support of the scholar's right to political independence at a time when the national desire for blood letting was at its height, was a turning point in the defense war against the Congressional inquisitors...
...University's decision in the Furry case was of great significance, it is important to understand how the policy was determined and why the point of view of Conant, Sutherland, and Chafee was modified. This is especially intriguing since at one point during the deliberations Furry's connection with Harvard was nearly severed...
This question had caused anxiety throughout the nation in the late forties, and in 1949 under pressure from anti-Communist groups (like the National Council for American Education), the National Education Association appointed a 20-man Educational Policies Commission, including President Conant and Dwight Eisenhower of Columbia, to examine the problem. The commission's conclusion was that "Communists should not be employed as teachers" because membership in the CP meant that they had surrendered their intellectual integrity. In a poll taken among Harvard Faculty members by the Crimson, this point of view was upheld, 218 to 108. Those critical...
...third distinguished voice also urged cooperation with the investigations. In January, 1953, President Conant was appointed U.S. High Commissioner of Germany and was questioned intensively before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At the time he stated that he thought professors who took the fifth should be fired. Several weeks later, speaking before his final Faculty meeting, Conant voiced a dislike for the investigations, and said that the University had no a priori policy regarding professors who appeared before congressional committees. Still, his comments before the Foreign Relations Committee and the Sutherland-Chafee statement would seem to have been...