Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Crider, Editorial Chairman of the Herald, estimated that so far about 40 letters have been received on the topic of Cunningham's article. Of these, about three-fourths have attacked the Column
...text of Professor Howe's letter to the CRIMSON on Cunningham's column may be found on page 2 of this issue. man, that sees his life, much less his death, as simple and explicable, at theme for politics, an opportunity to prove a point. There are contradictions in everyone, as obviously there were in him. But from the same nature as sprang his political intensity and his last fearful decision grew also gentleness, vision, and sympathy...
DeVoto's letter in yesterday's Herald found the political implications in the Cunningham article "disturbing" and "scurrilous." Stating his point in a series of questions, he asked, "Does Mr. Cunningham believe that the freedoms so guaranteed (in the Constitution) should be restricted or abridged? If so, to which citizens should they be restricted and how much should they be abridged...
Howe's letter in the Herald called Cunningham's article "obscene gloating over a deep personal tragedy...
...from Charles W Bailey, 2nd, '50 of Eliot House, who stated, "I believe that one of the basic tenets of academic freedom is that a University is no more obliged to support a man's personal opinions than it is expected to attempt to censor them. . . . Apparently Mr. Cunningham fails to understand that two or more men in the group may have different opinions...