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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thirty-nine years ago when an instructor named Mr. Coolidge took his place in the Harvard mathematics department. 'Gradually the influence of his personality has spread. His imposing marches through the Yard, his witty mathematics classes, his total abstinence from the letter "r" along with his notable hospitality, have become as much a part of life here as John Harvard's statue or the elms in the Yard. We hope that Professor Coolidge, even after his retirement, will not make his absence too sharply felt by withdrawing completely from the scenes in which he has taken so great a part...
...letter printed in the New York Times yesterday, Jerome D. Greene, Secretary to the Corporation, denied that the University had taken any discriminatory action against Communism when the University stopped the distribution of the Young Communist League pamphlets against the "imperialist war" on Monday...
...letter Greene said that any such action "is utterly incompatible with the well-known traditions of academic freedom in Harvard University...
...charged that last Wednesday, Committee investigators raided his office and "left it a shambles." They had no search warrant, and relied on "physical force" in carrying out their program, he asserted in a letter to Murphy
...letter to a University official Fletcher Briggs announced that he was taking a "vacation" in Cambridge and would do no tutoring for the present. Briggs was formerly a Harvard instructor in German and has been tutoring privately for the past eleven years...