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...recent report, the House Un-American Activities Committee expressed considerable consternation over the scope of academic freedom. The Committee singled out Geology professor Kirtley F. Mather and M.I.T. Mathematics professor Dirk Jan Struik as examples of what can happen to American education when teachers go beyond bounds that the House Committee believes proper. According to the Committee, Mather is a man "who exerts influence over thousands of students at Harvard University" and who possibly may be leading his charges along the ill-fated path of the Rosenbergs and the Hisses...
...House Un-American Activities Committee criticized the University and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, in a report issued yesterday, because of Mather's backing of Dirk Jan Struik, M.I.T. professor indicted for sedition. Last night Mather would not comment on the report...
Ralph Barton Perry '29, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, and Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, were among the signers of an open letter sent by the National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act to President Truman Monday...
...article, Philbrick explained how he became chairman of the Youth Council which he innocently believed to be a valid "pacifist" organization. Its organizer, said the counterspy, was a girl named Toni Grose who had her offices in the Freshman Union. Its list of prominent sponsors included Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology...
Public Dinner. Harvard Geologist Kirtley Mather sent out 30 letters to Protestant clergymen all over the state, suggesting that Struik be invited to attend community gatherings. Other sympathizers organized an Emergency Defense Committee. When the American Legion gave a testimonial dinner to Philbrick last month and Governor Dever proclaimed a "Philbrick Day," the Struik Defense Committee trumpeted its reply: the occasion, it said, was really "Informer's Day." Two days later, the Universalist Church of Annisquam, Mass, dismissed the Rev. George Abbe for being one of the committee's sponsors. The Greater Boston Universalist Ministers' Association promptly...