Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Olum called attention to recent actions by other universities limiting academic freedom, chiefly at Chicago, where students are not allowed to criticize the administration directly, and at Ohio State, where a Marxist club was banned. Mentioning the refusal by the University to allow Earl Browder to use a lecture hall for a speech, he remarked that academic freedom was especially threatened during wartime...
Olum's statement is as follows: "There has been an awareness in Phi Beta Kappa recently that the tradition of intellectual freedom of the American university is not something to be taken for granted by is something to be fought...
...This is in no sense a political group. The purpose is simply the maintenance of intellectual standards on the camp us. The preservation of these standards demand complete freedom that students and Faculty be permitted to say what they will to hear whom they will, and to call whatever meetings they will...
...Such a committee may well find no cause for action, and if so it will remain inactive. Harvard has a tradition of 300 years of academic freedom behind her, and we feel sure that this will not suffer especially in the present period of wars and crises. We simply think that there should be such a committee standing ready to defend this traction against attack from any source whatever
...surprising that Phi Beta Kappa is a champion of academic freedom, because almost everyone of any intelligence at all approves of it, just in the same way he would approve of Christian morality or young love. There may be some yapping minorities that attack it, and some paper advocates who in practice sabotage it, but still 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. And the summons to this constitution of an undergraduate committee...