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...those people who have been sincerely disturbed by Supreme Court decisions forbidding the recitation of state-prescribed prayers in public schools, Harvard's famed constitutional law professor, Paul Freund, had some reassuring words last week. Not that Freund disagreed with the court. It is hard to see how it could have ruled any other way, he said in a lecture at Harvard's School of Education. But the decisions, he insisted, "are more important for the doors they leave open than for those they shut...
Religion, Freund reminded his audience, "is unquestionably a part of our cultural tradition. A number of the holidays we observe, the coins we take and spend, the public addresses we hear, the inscriptions on public buildings that we enter, all bear witness to the infusion and persistence of this tradition." It is hard to see how such things can be challenged in law, he said, "so long as they are not addressed to a captive audience and do not call for a profession of commitment or rejection on the part of those who witness them...
...Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, will speak on "Religion and the Schools" at 4:30 p.m. today in Burr B. His Burton Lecture will be the third in a series sponsored by the Ed School and its Student Association...
...other Harvard professors are serving on Countryman's committee. Writing memoranda on cases now before the Court are Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Ernest J. Brown, professor of Law, and Yale Kamisar and Charles A. Wright, visiting professor of Law. Mark DeWolfe '28, and Albert M. Sacks, professors of Law, still waiting to be assigned cases...
...dramatic sky and stark, navel-level camera work, but the really exciting footage owes something to the early German directors. Wasn't it Robert Weine who painted the foreboding expressionist shadows on the set of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? And Carl Mayer who strapped a camera on Carl Freund, the "drunk" camera man of The Last Laugh...