Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the recommendation last week of the undergraduate chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a Harvard committee for Academic Freedom was constituted yesterday at a meeting i Phillips Brooks House...
...Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union wishes to congratulate the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on its call for a committee to preserve academic freedom. The need for such a committee grows daily more apparent as college after college after college, with the exceptions of Yale and M. I. T., follows Harvard's rules of etiquette in refusing to allow Earl Browder to speak before student organizations in college buildings. We have, as yet, no assurance that the Harvard authorities are convinced that they "made a silly mistake in the Browder case" nor that they will...
...CRIMSON's editorial of December 9 states that "the great majority of people and certainly the great majority of Harvard students would condone academic freedom in extravagant terms. But granted that academic freedom is a good thing, the constitution of an undergraduate committee to protect it is something else." Just as lip service to the American desire to keep out of war is no guarantee against our involvement in war, so lip service to civil liberties is no guarantee against their suppression. We feel that there has been sufficient evidence of infringement of academic freedom throughout the nation--witness...
...Harvard Anti-War Committee offers its full support and cooperation to the new Committee for Academic Freedom. Milton D. Softer, For the Harvard Anti-War Committee
...limiting the voice of its Communist members to their proportional representation, the Student Union will be neither red-baiting nor crimping the freedom of speech. For their unimportance in numbers -- merely a seventh of the total membership -- the Y.C.I., has had authority within the Student Union far in excess of its democratic privilege. Skilful infiltration into key posts has enabled them to hold their ground although far from representing majority opinion. And yet the blame for Communist leadership cannot be placed on their shoulders. They are only too eager to carry the load of committee chairmanships and organization. With their...