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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orville S. Poland, Chairman of the Civil Liberties Committee of Massachusetts, predicted last night that the Dies Committee's investigation of Student Union activities will probably involve Harvard, Radcliffe, and M.I.T...
...Last week the Harvard University Corporation rescinded its permission for a student meeting at which Earl Browder was to speak. It did so with the explanation that his indictment for a passport violation had made him unfit for a Harvard platform. Three days later a mob of legionnaires and assorted thugs descended on a Detroit meeting-hall where Communist leader William Z. Foster was delivering an address. They picketed boisterously, and when the meeting ended and the crowd began to disperse, they went into action. They created a tumultuous riot, inflicted injuries on nearly fifty people who had attended...
...Last Tuesday's meeting of the Faculty saw the first constructive action to emerge from the biweekly storm-sessions which are rapidly becoming a Harvard institution. More than that, it saw a triumph of a principle proclaimed since the beginning of the controversy by critics of the Administration's tenure policies. The Faculty's resolution--cautious and ambiguous though its terminology may have been--constituted an official sanction of the system of frozen associate professorships...
...first reasonable use of the new-found flexibility would be the reappointment of a few of the assistant professors who were officially handed their walking papers last spring. The double-edged case for them has often been stated: that they have proven their abilities as teachers and scholars, and that they are urgently needed by their departments at the present time. In the final analysis, flexibility should exist for no other reason than to provide a solution when one or both of these two situations exist. Whether or not the Administration will admit this remains to be seen...
...specter of Torbie Macdonald, Charley Spreyer, George Heidon, Fran Lee, and Joe Gardella becomes a reality. The Yale line averages 201 pounds from tackle to tackle, and many of them haven't forgotten how the high-powered Crimson attack stalled and sputtered in the mud of the Yale Bowl last November...