Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete text of President Conant's report to the Overseers may be found in column four...
...committee will be made up of the nine professor who received a memorandum from 131 junior teachers requesting a report on the issues involved...
According to the report of the committee. Yale was only to be condemned as violating the principle of academic tenure. It criticizes particularly the fact that it took the Divinity School faculty and the Yale authorities twelve years to decide on Professor Davis's fitness. "The obligations of Yale University to Dr. Davis after his long service could not be discharged by a final appointment of one year." The resolution adopted by the council was based solely upon this point...
...been charged by the New Republic, by the report of the American Teacher's Association, and others that Yale authorities and the Corporation had infringed upon the liberty of speech and academic freedom of certain members of the faculty. However, in the case of Professor Davis, the investigating committee decided after an extensive examination of all evidence available, including a six day hearing at New Haven, that the Corporation did not violate these principles. They found "no conclusive evidence that objections to Dr. Davis's political and economic opinions or to his civic activities were the sufficient or the decisive...
...exonerated on the two main points of academic freedom and civil liberties, President Angell was sharply rebuked for his letter, characterized as "ill-advised" and "indiscreet," to Dean Weigle of the Divinity School, written when its faculty board was about to vote on Professor Davis's reappointment. The report quoted the following phrase from the letter: "I must say that I think Jerome is becoming an increasing nuisance and my patience is inevitably wearing rather thin...