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Harvard's Dr. Helen Deane Markham, who has been in & out of her job as assistant professor of anatomy because of her refusal to say whether she is or has ever been a Communist, was in again. When Dr. Markham clammed up before the Jenner Subcommittee last March, the Corporation of the University cleared her of Red affiliations, announced she would keep her job. Then an FBI undercover agent identified Dr. Markham and her husband as Communists; Harvard reopened the case, suspended her with...
When Harvard's Dr. Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of anatomy, refused last March to tell the Jenner subcommittee whether or not she was a Communist, she appeared to some liberals to be a courageous champion of academic freedom. The Corporation of Harvard University, after questioning her on its own, concluded that Anatomist Markham was in fact no Red. It tagged her with "misconduct" for hiding behind the Fifth Amendment, but decided not to fire her (TIME, June 1). Last week the Corporation was forced to reconsider...
Called before the Jenner subcommittee again, Mrs. Markham not only refused to answer questions but implied that Harvard approved her defiance. Then, last month, former FBI Undercover Agent Herbert Philbrick flatly identified her and her husband as former Communists. In 1947, Philbrick told the subcommittee, he attended a meeting of Boston Communists. Subject of discussion: whether Dr. Markham should be transferred to Boston, or whether she should continue her work in the Cambridge Communist cell. Though both the Markhams have denied the Philbrick testimony, the Harvard Corporation decided last week to "reopen" her case, suspend her with pay until...
...Harvard, Leon J. Kamin, Daniel Fine, Furry, and Holon Wendler Dean Markham invoked the amendment. Although none were suspended or fired, all the facts that were not told the committees were released by the Harvard Corporation when it announced its decision. Few instructors have been dismissed because they told the truth about past associations in another time and in another climate of opinion
Invoking the First and Fifth Amendments, Mrs. Markham recently refused to answer questions dealing, with the Corporation's statement of May 19 and possible Communist activity. She would not say whether she has denied to university authorities since then that she was a member of the Communist party...