Word: griflin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eugene Griflin, Tribune reporter, launched the "crusade" against Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth one year ago today with the alarming news that Ivy League colleges are "infested with pedagogic termites of communism, socialism, world federalism and other foreign born schemes which would weaken the American Republic...
...series of articles, Griflin included Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, Kirtley F. Mather, and Harlow Shapley among these at "Harvard . . . noted in the east for its stable of professors who frequently come out from behind their books to toe the communist party line, perhaps absent mindedly." Lyons produces evidence such as the anti-communist articles Professor Schlesinger has written for Henry Luce to spotlight the absurdity of the Tribune's assertions. In another article headlined "Red Teaching at Harvard is Insidious" the Tribune attacked Granville Hicks '23 and Felix Frankfurter '06, neither of whom as Lyons points out, have...