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...director of Hunter College's Medical Office yesterday attacked the use of "Morals and Medicine" in Philosophy 3, asserting that the book "perverts the basic moral principles of medicine," and has challenged the author, the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher, to defend his work in an open debate...
...Fletcher has accepted the challenge, offered in a letter to the CRIMSON, and the debate will be held at the College, probably on April 20 or April...
...William J. Fordrung, professor of Physiology at Hunter for over 25 years, called the book "the lowest type of secularistic thinking," and said that Fletcher's conclusions were "indelicate and absurd." He asserted that the volume is an example of "the fuzzy thinking so prevalent in many academic circles at present [which] is vehemently gauged to destroy all morality...
McLendon explained yesterday: "It has been from the outset, and still is, in view of the greater difficulty of the other readings, much better that the limited time in the section meetings be devoted to clarification of the more difficult texts, rather than to Fletcher's valuable but not especially difficult book...
...somewhere. And I do not see how anyone could object to the CRIMSON'S having an editorial opinion on it. When the day comes that the CRIMSON makes "any pretense of being an 'impartial observer' of the Harvard scene," I, for one, shall let my subscription lapse. Jos. F. Fletcher...