Word: olum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alumnus of the School of Dard Knocks who is in the dark about the meaning of the "academic freedom" which Phi Beta Kappa has set out to protect, Thomas Dorgan, former member of the State Legislature, calls on the learned fraternity for an explanation in a letter to Paul Olum, PBK First Marshal...
...Olum called attention to recent actions by other universities limiting academic freedom, chiefly at Chicago, where students are not allowed to criticize the administration directly, and at Ohio State, where a Marxist club was banned. Mentioning the refusal by the University to allow Earl Browder to use a lecture hall for a speech, he remarked that academic freedom was especially threatened during wartime...
Explaining the action, Paul Olum '40, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, declared that the honor society's job was "the maintenance of intellectual standards," and linked the local chapter's action with the national organization's current drive for an "intellectual defence fund...
...Olum's statement is as follows: "There has been an awareness in Phi Beta Kappa recently that the tradition of intellectual freedom of the American university is not something to be taken for granted by is something to be fought...
...scholarships were conferred on the following: Alan J. Ansen '42, Woodmere, L.I.; Joseph N. Bah, Jr. '40, Philadelphia; James S. Clarke '40, La Grange, III.; Viasios Georgian '41, Quincy; Robert A. Keller '42, Cleveland; William H. Kruskal '40, New Rochelle, N.Y.; John E. Leffler '42, Waban; Paul Olum '40, Binghampton, N.Y.; Emanual G. Weiss '41, Elkins Park, Pa.; John H. Wulsin '42, Cincinnati...