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Social Relations instructor Leon J. Kamin '48 plans to supplement by affidavit his testimony before the Jenner Committee, the CRIMSON learned last night...
Besides Furry, the other two faculty members retained were Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy at the Medical School, and Leon J. Kamin, teaching fellow in Social Relations. All refused to answer questions before Congressional investigations regarding communist affiliations...
Most of the comments on the Corporation's decision on Professor Furry, Leo J. Kamin, and Mrs. Markham have been simplicity itself. Purveyors of opinion have either liked it or not, period, depending on their predispositions, and accordingly selected whatever points suited their stand. Though not free from predispositions of our own, we cannot view the Corporation's action in such a convenient way, and any conscientious discussion of the doctrine and decisions must match their complexity...
...question. For the most part, it is true, the Corporation upheld Harvard's traditional scrupulousness for academic freedom. It did this by resting much of its policy on the teachers' quality of instruction and their relations with their students, areas in which, as the Corporation noted, Furry, Kamin, and Mrs. Markham are free of the slightest suspicion. What bothers us, however, is that the Senior Fellows were not content to stop there...
...poened Faculty members to risk perjury charges. It is not a question of the teacher's responsibility to speak frankly and with candor; rather it is a matter which goes beyond that responsibility, which saddles a teacher with an entirely unnecessary burden. Thus we cannot agree that either Kamin or Miss Markham deserved the reprimand given them. Kamin's Communist connections ceased before his University employment; Mrs. Markham never...