Word: dirk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dirk. Jan Struik, suspended M.I.T. professor of Mathematics, said yesterday that he and Harry E. Winner have filed a motion with the Middlesex County District Court "to quash the indictment" of advocating "the violent overthrow of the Commonwealth...
Sarton is chairman of the Struik Defense Committee, a group formed last fall to raise money for the defense of Dirk J. Struck, suspended professor of Mathematics at M.I.T...
...recent report, the House Un-American Activities Committee expressed considerable consternation over the scope of academic freedom. The Committee singled out Geology professor Kirtley F. Mather and M.I.T. Mathematics professor Dirk Jan Struik as examples of what can happen to American education when teachers go beyond bounds that the House Committee believes proper. According to the Committee, Mather is a man "who exerts influence over thousands of students at Harvard University" and who possibly may be leading his charges along the ill-fated path of the Rosenbergs and the Hisses...
...House Un-American Activities Committee criticized the University and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, in a report issued yesterday, because of Mather's backing of Dirk Jan Struik, M.I.T. professor indicted for sedition. Last night Mather would not comment on the report...
...says of Struik, "Dirk was cold and calculating--perhaps the prototype of the pure scientist. He was not only a great mathematician, but an expert in the Marxist theory as well; and he combined these two fields in his flat assumption that the foundation of Stalinism was to be found in science...