Word: markhams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides Furry, the other two faculty members retained were Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy at the Medical School, and Leon J. Kamin, teaching fellow in Social Relations. All refused to answer questions before Congressional investigations regarding communist affiliations...
Most of the comments on the Corporation's decision on Professor Furry, Leo J. Kamin, and Mrs. Markham have been simplicity itself. Purveyors of opinion have either liked it or not, period, depending on their predispositions, and accordingly selected whatever points suited their stand. Though not free from predispositions of our own, we cannot view the Corporation's action in such a convenient way, and any conscientious discussion of the doctrine and decisions must match their complexity...
...most part, it is true, the Corporation upheld Harvard's traditional scrupulousness for academic freedom. It did this by resting much of its policy on the teachers' quality of instruction and their relations with their students, areas in which, as the Corporation noted, Furry, Kamin, and Mrs. Markham are free of the slightest suspicion. What bothers us, however, is that the Senior Fellows were not content to stop there...
...Corporation announced that "administrative procedure had been substantially completed" in the case of Furry and Leon J. Kamin, Teaching Fellow in Social Relations. At that time it was indicated that no decisions would be announced until final action had also been taken on the cases of Dr. Helen Dean Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy at the Medical School, and Dr. Daniel Fine, teaching Fellow in Medicine. It is believed that these cases have since been concluded...
...Helen Dean Markham and Dr. Daniel Fine, teaching fellow in Medicine, are listed as under "active consideration" by the Corporation, but have been given time extensions...