Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school and a past president of the Washington bar, complained that the Canwell Committee itself was "un-American." One of the professors accused of being a Communist, Herbert Phillips, was prevented from replying to the "are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" question with anything but a yes or no answer when his replies were cut off by the repeated banging of the Canwell gavel. Canwell himself admitted that the gavel was used to "terminate those typical speeches...
...final committee report threw out all charges except that Gundlach had refused to answer a question put to him by President Allen as to his membership in the Communist Party. It found that Gundlach's equivocation on this issue, together with his "unsatisfactory relations" with the university administration, constituted neglect of only and were sufficient grounds for dismissal. Four members out of, 11 dissented from this opinion President Allen found the majority report to his liking. As did the Board of Regents...
...article criticizes the hyprocrisy of national fraternity officers who supposedly abide by "the fine moral and ethical precepts" of their organization's charters but who in practice firmly oppose admission of minority groups. Romer asks the question: "Should organizations continue that are in direct opposition to the ideals of our undergraduates and of our democracy...
...deplores the tendency in England and the U.S.--not at Harvard, he remarks diplomatically--of university professors to doubt the worth of their academic pursuits. "Outside always suspects Ivory Tower, but insiders now think asking questions too persistently is form of maladjustment. Research, secret joy, but go to Washington to justify it. Whole concept of university breaks down. Used to think disciplines just different ways of asking same question. Now want answers, not truth...
Those explorations might deal with Greece, Austria, China, and the atomic question. The foreign ministers completed their pre-conference strategy meetings yesterday...