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Though several Crimson editors at the time were deeply engaged in questions of academic freedom, few became as entrenched as J. Anthony Lukas...
...late 1940s and early 1950s, The Crimson came to stand out from the ranks of most university newspapers for its coverage of McCarthy’s communist hunts and other questions of academic freedom...
...spring of 1949, The Crimson published its first supplement on academic freedom, assembling an annual compendium of major cases both at Harvard and across the nation...
...academic freedom issue...began at a time when The Crimson and the College still contained a number of World War II veterans,” recalls Jack Rosenthal ’56, a former associate managing editor of The Crimson. “They were more mature and more sophisticated than a lot of typical undergraduates. When these kinds of chauvinistic attacks started arising, they were deeply concerned...
...With the breaking of the McCarthy bubble, things had calmed down quite a bit,” says Rosenthal, who helped assemble The Crimson’s academic freedom supplement in 1955. “It was still an issue, but it didn’t have anything like the fervor or the power it had had in the two or three years previous...