Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southern Baptists (membership: 6,000,000) pointedly challenged the North by voting to hold their next convention in Chicago...
Among the "no" answers submitted, several objected to Communists on the grounds that they were incapable of impartiality. Another stated flatly that "membership in the Communist party and academic freedom are absolutely incompatible...
...Such membership, and the accompanying surrender of intellectual integrity, render an individual unfit to discharge the duties of a teacher in this country...
President Conant has at last clearly stated his position on the issue of the right of Communists to teach in American schools and colleges. Members of the Communist Party of the United States should not be employed as teachers. Such membership . . . involves adherence to doctrines and discipline completely inconsistent with the principles of freedom on which American education depends. Such membership, and the accompanying surrender of intellectual integrity, render an individual unfit to discharge the duties of a teacher in this country...
...CRIMSON believes that membership in the Communist Party does not automatically "render an individual unfit to discharge the duties of a teacher." First, there is proof that many Communist card-holders are not required to follow the party line. In order to keep many "big names" in the party, the Communists do not demand blind obedience to party policies. Second, even if all Communists surrendered their "intellectual integrity," there are large areas of learning where politics is completely irrelevant. An ardent party-liner in the field of government is one thing--his dogma could well make him incompetent to teach...