Word: halperins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston last week, the law school of Harvard had to decide what to do with the second-year students who had refused to tell the Jenner subcommittee whether they had ever held a Communist meeting at their homes. Meanwhile. Boston University was debating the case of Professor Maurice Halperin, the former OSS man and Latin American expert who had refused to say whether he had ever known Elizabeth Bentley. In a sense, the fate of these individuals was only a part of a larger problem facing U.S. campuses last week. The big question on U.S. educators' minds: what overall...
...Maurice Halperin, 47, associate professor in Boston University's department of Latin American studies and a wartime OSS man, testified before Senator William Jenner in Boston. Though he insisted that he had not at any time committed espionage, he refused to say whether he had ever been a member of Elizabeth Bentley's spy ring or whether he had ever known Alger Hiss, William Remington or John Abt. Professor Halperin did say: "At no time and in no way whatsoever have I tried to influence the political, philosophical or social thinking of my students...
Aside from Furry and Boorstin, Davis named eight other former teachers as cell members. They are Jack B. Rackliffe '34, John H. Reynolds '29, Richard B. Schlatter, former instructor in History, Richard M. Goodwin '34, instructor in Physics and later assistant professor of Economics, George Mayberry, Israel Halperin, Ruby Sherr, and Herbert E. Robbins...
...Freshman Debating Society elected David A. Halperin president at its weekly meeting last night. Other officers chosen were: Jack C. Wilber, vice-president; Stephen G. Brush, corresponding secretary; Alan R. Schwartz, recording secretary; and Ralph I. Petersberger, treasurer...