Word: munsterberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear of publicity, and an apprehensiveness of powerful personalities and minds especially (since the war) when they are of certain foreign extractions. A great deal of this is undoubtedly justified so far as the selection of students is concerned, but in it also lies the evil which earlier forced Munsterberg and Santayana to resign and which more recently caused the withdrawal of Baker and MacDougall. And now, since the Sacco-Vanzetti case, there is an antagonism in the Law School against Frank-furter. Why should not a professor bring his knowledge to bear upon matters of public and human interest...
...memory of man. During the war you lost your fellowship at Cambridge on account of your opinions. No such thing happened at Harvard. Throughout the war we kept and protected a German subject in our instructing staff. In spite of outcries for their dismissal, from alumni and others. Professor Munsterberg and Mr. Lashi were unflinchingly maintained in their positions. Throughout all trials Harvard has stood, and will stand, for the fullest academic freedom. Since the outbreak of the war and the foment of opinions that it caused, few institutions of learning have had so clear a record in maintaining this...
...especially warm in his praise of William James, Josiah Royce and Hugo Munsterberg...