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Where faculty freedom flourishes, professors who get fired are usually guilty of some act so flagrant that the president believes he can make the ouster stick. In 1960, University of Illinois President David D. Henry fired Biologist Leo F. Koch after Koch wrote a letter to the campus newspaper backing premarital sex among students. Said Koch: "With modern contraceptives and medical advice readily available at the nearest drugstore, or at least a family physician, there is no valid reason why sexual intercourse should not be condoned among those sufficiently mature to engage in it without social consequences and without violating...
...Pope Leo XIII cautiously encouraged Catholic scholars to join in the scientific investigation of Scripture begun by Protestant Germany's "Higher Critics." It was a false dawn. Under Leo's successor, Pius X (1903-14). church officials took arms against the heresy of modernism-which taught that Catholic dogma should be revised in the light of progress made by science and philosophy -and Bible scholars proved to be handy targets. Some found their writings placed on the Index; the top Catholic scholar of his day, Dominican Father Marie Joseph Lagrange, was dismissed from his teaching posts...
...about a year ago, is the first of a series that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to orbit during the current solar activity cycle of 11 years. The Harvard instrument which S-17 will carry was made at the College Observatory by a group directed by Leo Goldberg, Higgins Professor of Astronomy. William Liller, Robert Wheeler Willson professor of Applied Astronomy, is assistant director of the project, and the instrument was built and tested by Edmond Reeves, William Parkinson, Donald Buckley, and Nathan Hazen...
...LEO FRIESEN...
...have one there. Debbie Reynolds is a battle-fatigued Snow White who flees from the hurly-burly of life as a movie star to her place in Connecticut, and discovers six dwarfs and a dog living in a greenhouse at the bottom of the garden. Their names are Leo, Sherman, Dulcie, Amy, Brenda, Sonny and Butch. Leo is the grumpy one, and Sonny won't talk. In scenes brimming with heigh-ho, Debbie and the tots, who are really the abandoned children of a migrant tobacco picker, go about housekeeping chores with more madness than method. Then Prince Charming...