Word: misconducts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporation had found Kamin guilty of "misconduct" in his refusal to testify to the committee, but had refused to dismiss him on the grounds that only "grave misconduct" warranted dismissal...
After Furry had refused to answer certain questions before the House Un American Activities Committee in February, 1953, the Corporation found him guilty of "grave misconduct" and placed him on probation for three years. But the Corporation, which reserved the right to fire Furry, kept him on the faculty "because there is a very different climate of political opinion" now than in the period from 1938 to 1947 when furry was admittedly a member of the Communist party...
...they say, repeating Senator McCarthy, that the University is the place "Fifth Amendment teachers" should apply to for employment, he should remind them that the Corporation considers use of said Amendment "misconduct," and has not nor will recruit teachers...
...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...
...before March 1, 1951. Actually, said the Corporation, he was a member until 1947. Even so, he "at no time permitted his connection with the party to affect his teaching, nor has he attempted otherwise to influence the political thinking of his students." One incident, however, did seem "grave misconduct" in the Corporation's eyes: as an officer of the American Association of Scientific Workers, "he told an investigating agent in 1944 that he had no reason to believe an applicant for a position for classified Government work had been a member of the Communist Party, although Dr. Furry...