Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three distinguished members of the Harvard family have entered into the controversy. On June 8 the Educational Policies Commission, in a report signed by President Conant, asked for the exclusion of Communist Party members from teaching. Because it also condemned irresponsible labeling of non-Communists as "Reds" and "Communists," the Commission thought its report would strengthen, not weaken, integrity on the campus...
...CRIMSON feared that the report of the Educational Policies Commission would tighten the squeeze on free inquiry in education. We now hope that the Corporation's stand will convince educators and legislators that a university, as the world has known it, is not a collection of timid souls vaccinated by jumpy men like Mr. Ober against ideo-logical disease. A university is a home for men free to grapple with an heretical germ and strong enough to resist the forces of fear and hysteria...
This sentence, included in one of the most significant statements on U.S. education in a decade, made big headlines last week for a report on American Education and International Tensions, published by the Educational Policies Commission* of the National Education Association...
...commission's reasoning, and the professional eminence of the men who made the report, was sure to have a deep effect on U.S. educational policies. Yet the principle was also sure to encounter problems of enforcement. Said the New York Post: "Communist teachers conceal their affiliations. How can they be identified unless the techniques of FBI investigation . . . are imposed on the campus? How can that be done without imperiling the innocent...
...Appeals agreed; it threw out Baltimore's gag rule as "illogical." Declared the court: "We are well aware of the high motives [involved] in attempting to keep the stream of justice undefiled by sensationalism . . . [But] trials cannot be held in a vacuum, hermetically sealed against rumor and report...