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Wherever he got the chance, the voter swung at home-grown subversives. Maryland approved the Ober law, once ruled unconstitutional by a state circuit court. It requires a loyalty oath from state employees and candidates, sets up a maximum penalty of $20,000 fine and 20 years in prison for attempting or advocating overthrow of the U.S.-or of the Free State of Maryland. Michigan approved a sweeping definition of subversion, authorized its legislature to take up anti-commie laws from there...
Traditionally the advanced student took his lodgings where he could find them, and generally high rents in Cambridge often meant he found them far away. The quality of his meals was directly proportional to the padding in his wallet. This meant Locke-Ober's occasionally but the Hayes-Bickford often. In either case, dinner table education was nothing to the graduate student but a memory from his college days. Education for the graduate student tended to be a tense business rather than the congenial occupation it had been before...
...alumnus was Frank B. Ober, former chairman of the Maryland Commission on Subversive Activities, which proposed Maryland's anti-"subversive" legislation. Ober complained that two Harvard faculty members--Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, and John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition--were "giving aid and comfort to Communism...
...Ober criticized his alma mater for tolerating such "extracurricular activities." His letter produced a short reply from Conant and a lengthy defense of the University's position from Grenville Clark '03, senior member of the Corporation...
...Mississippi act was largely copied from the Maryland law drawn up by Frank B. Ober, Law School graduate who tangled last year with President Conant and Corporation member Grenville Clark '03 over academic freedom at Harvard...