Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the University has so often refused to censure or suppress unpopular political groups at the urging of legislators, alumni, or midwestern newspaper, it is easy to accept Dean Griswold's statement as a natural occurrence. It might be a repetition of what Grenville Clark said two years ago concerning the free expression of the Harvard faculty, or Dean Bender's statement at the time Gerhart Eisler spoke in the Yard...
...following letter from Dean Griswold of the Law School to Samuel P. Sears 17 is in response to a letter in which Sears protested a scheduled speech at the Law School by Oamund K. Fraenkel '08, vice-president of the National Lawyer's Guild...
...question when free speech goes beyond proper limitations is an extraordinarily difficult one to answer. You would have us act to suppress the local organization, by refusing to allow it to use Law School rooms for its speakers, Dean Griswold and, as I read your letter, by dismissing its members from the School...
...absence of any official action under the McCarran Act against the National Lawyer's Guild itself, we have felt that it would be an improper interference with the legitimate freedom of our students to take any action towards suppressing this group at the Law School. Erwin N. Griswold Dean, Harvard Law School
Last night Griswold had no comment to make on the letter...