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...proposing new internal security legislation. On February 25, the committee questioned Robert Gorham Davis '29, professor of English at Smith and teacher at Harvard from 1933 to 1943. Davis gave the HUAC he names of ten former and one present Harvard Faculty members who and been in a CP cell with him before the second World War. Wendell Furry was the one man still at Harvard named by Davis...
...following day, Furry made the first of four appearances before Congressional investigating committees find, although he denied that he was then a member of the Communist Party, he refused to answer all questions relating to previous CP activity. He justified his silence by the fifth amendment. That night Provost Paul H. Buck issued a statement: Professor Wendell H. Furry's reported refused to answer questions put to him by the House Committee on Un-American Activities will be given full and deliberate consideration by the Harvard University authorities...
...proposing new internal security legislation. On February 25, the committee questioned Robert Gorham Davis '29, professor of English at Smith and teacher at Harvard from 1933 to 1943. Davis gave the HUAC the names of ten former and one present Harvard Faculty members who had been in a CP cell with him before the second World War. Wendell Furry was the one man still at Harvard named by Davis...
...following day, Furry made the first of four appearances before Congressional investigating committees and, although he denied that he was then a member of the Communist Party, he refused to answer all questions relating to previous CP activity. He justified his silence by the fifth amendment. That night Provost Paul H. Buck issued a statement: "Professor Wendell H. Furry's reported refusal to answer questions put to him by the House Committee on Un-American Activities will be given full and deliberate consideration by the Harvard University authorities...
...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 of the commission report felt that a blanket rule should not be applied and that each individual should be judged...