Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brewster, Jr., professor of Law; Percy W. Bridgman '04, Higgins University Professor and Nobel Laureate; Edwin J. Cohn, Higgins University Professor; Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government; Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature; George Sarton, professor of the History of Science, emeritus; and May Sarton, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English Composition at Radcliffe College...
Richard B. Lewis, 44, education professor at San José Junior College and Leroy T. Herndon Jr., 46, Spanish instructor at Glendale College, testified in Los Angeles before Representative Harold Velde. Both said they had attended meetings of the same American Federation of Teachers local back in the '30s, both had seen meetings taken over by a bloc of "eight or ten or twelve" Communists, both had left the party, completely disillusioned...
What applies to research applies equally to teaching. So long as an instructor's observations are scholarly and germane to his subject, his freedom of expression in his classroom should not be curbed. The university student should be exposed to competing opinions and beliefs in every field, so that he may learn to weigh them and gain maturity of judgment . . . In teaching, as in research, [the instructor] is limited by the requirements of citizenship, of professional competence and good taste. Having met those standards, he is entitled to all the protection the full resources of the university can provide...
Since present membership in the Communist Party requires the acceptance of these principles and methods, such membership extinguishes the right to a university position. [The same holds] if an instructor [becomes] a propagandist for one opinion, adopting a "party line" . . . impairing freedom of thought and expression in his classroom...
...pious but practical young pastor. Otto Dibelius noticed these things. The professors at his seminary had taught him that a pastor should never enter the homes of his parishioners. "If you do," one instructor warned, "the mantle of Elijah will surely fall from your shoulders." In Scotland, as a student of the established church, Pastor Dibelius learned differently. Back in Germany, after months of observing the ways of his Calvinist brethren, he startled some of his colleagues by mixing freely with his parishioners and encouraging them to be active in the life of the church. Once, while...