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Provided certain conditions are fulfilled, a professor has a patriotic duty to testify about past associates, as well as an obligation to his profession to testify about himself. Meeting these conditions is of prime importance. It is in deciding whether the particular investigating committee meets certain specifications that the individual professor should have the widest and freest exercise of his own judgment. The investigating court or committee or organization should clearly and specifically be legally authorized to make its inquires. Its motives must be ostensibly impartial and objective. Quite obviously, Harvard's own most important case--that of Professor Furry...
...challenged the government's case on a number of grounds: the scope of the authority of the Government Operations Committee of the Senate under the legislative reorganization act of 1946; the pertinency of the investigators' questions; the motives and objectives of Senator McCarthy's subcommittee; the conduct of the particular hearings at which Professor Furry testified in January, 1954; the presence of television cameras in the learning room...
...CRIMSON feels about the theory of twenty-fifth reunions the way it does about Virtue and Motherhood--it isn't safe to attack any of them publicly. Not that there is any particular urge to attack, but the question just never arises. We assume that a twenty-fifth reunion is a Good Thing because anything of such monolithic proportions simply must have merit. And yet, there is certainly an air of organized fun about the reunion proceedings, and that is one of the CRIMSON'S pet bugbears. The proprietors of this column early appointed themselves guardians of social individuality...
Henry noted in particular that only about 1200 applied to Harvard in 1926, compared to the more than 4,000 that did so during the past spring. The Class of 1930 had 55 per cent of its members from New England and 50 per cent from Massachusetts alone, Henry said. The Class of 1958, on the other hand, has 35 per cent of its membership from New England and less than 30 per cent from Massachusetts...
Other changes were also in the offing, but these concerned Harvard's athletic plant, the Stadium and the proposed Indoor Athletic Building in particular. Athletic Director Bingham suggested enlarging the Stadium to a seating capacity of 80,000. Wooden stands containing room for 22,000 had been erected annually but were now termed a fire hazard and had to be removed...