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Dean Acheson, Archibald MacLeish and Joseph N. Welch, wrote and spoke widely on civil rights but disliked being tagged a "fiery liberal," called himself a conservative "with an old-fashioned concern about the Bill of Rights...
Chafee served on many committees investigating civil rights, including the vice-chairmanship from 1934-1947 of the Commission on Freedom of the Press. This group included Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, emeritus, Reinhold Neibuhr and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...
Kennedy explained, however, that the affair was just a simple case of administrative confusion. He said that back in November, when the Registrar's Office sends out forms to the various courses to determine what type of exams they will be giving, MacLeish had not yet decided whether he would give an open book exam...
...issue remained in doubt right up to the time of the exam on January 23. To complicate matters, MacLeish fell sick with a temperature of 103, and thus was not able to be at the exam...
When one of his assistants arrived at the Harvard room with the exam papers, the proctors asked him to call MacLeish to find out whether or not the students would be allowed to use their books. The assistant decided it would be best not to disturb MacLeish's rest, so he took the responsibility of deciding that books could be used. Meanwhile, the Radcliffe examiners acted on the assumption that it was a closed-book exam...