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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survey has not mentioned the hundreds of colleges and universities where such violations have been non-existent or of a normally petty nature. The strength of the opposition in even the most flagrant cases also shows that the condition of academic freedom is far from despairing. Yet the current problems of academic freedom are serious, as the evidence compiled in the survey does show, and they exist in a frame of reference that is world-wide: the challenge of Communism and, along with it, the "Red Scare...
...little legislative pressure on universities. This time there are loyalty oaths, state investigations, and a concerted push against teachers whose personal views do not jibe with those of the investigators. Again, in 1920 the fledgling Russian nation was weak; now, the strength of the Soviet system and the tension current in international relations present us with a sustained crisis that may last at least a decade...
...first of these three categories concerns the case of two faculty members. Phillips of the Philosophy department and Butterworth of the English department, who have admitted current membership in the Communist Party. The faculty committee report on them was composed of a report of five members who recommended that the men be retained; a disagreed with the majority reasoning: and finally the dissenting reports of three members who also felt that the two men should be dismissed...
Baxter noted that Schuman had been "severely criticized by a number of alumni for speeches critical of the current foreign policy of the United States...
...current U.T. double feature bears out admirably the popular notion that Hollywood's most widely publicized pictures are often its worst. All the publicity in the world can't save "Mother Is A Freshman." "Act of Violence," left to survive on its own merits, is a good melodrama, the strength of which lies in the conflict between the two principals and the resulting suspense...