Word: mathiez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great French historian and radical Mathiez once said to Harold Laski, a Communist member of the Harvard faculty, 'You sympathize with liberalism. Why do you stay in such a capitalistic hole as Harvard? Why don't you go West, where the colleges are really liberal?' The opinion of Mathiez, who had never been outside of France, is hardly supported by the insistence of Harvard's faculty on academic freedom. Of course it is impossible to conceive of a professional agitator on the faculty of any college. One can't expect an institution founded by capitalists on a capitalistic order...
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