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...recent rumpus about Leverett House has illustrated an apparently common fallacy--that there is a scale of quality among the Houses. There appears to be a widespread belief among freshmen at least that certain Houses rank at the bottom of a College-wide caste system. One pictures the word sweeping around the Union: "Gad man, don't go to Leverett, it hasn't got a tower." Of course it might just as well be the size of courtyards, but this season it is towers, so hundreds of freshmen gallop off to beat on other portals...
...Menace is full of clichés and stock characters who eventually see the error of communism. By the last reel, there are hardly enough cell members left to stir up a rumpus in a tea cozy. The picture might get by if it were either good entertainment or good propaganda, but it is inept on both counts...
...would also be hard to match the unpredictable native drive of his politics. Rivera is a Marxist and he plays the part with rumpus-raising, vociferous passion. His paintings are famed for clarity; Rivera's fiery politics are not. He has been a Communist and he talks like one still, but the party now considers him too un disciplined to let him belong...
Then anonymous letters began arriving in Portland and Salem newspaper offices. Here was a question of academic freedom, the letters hinted, which reporters should investigate. After that, the rumpus began. By last week, the firing of Chemist Ralph Spitzer and Economist L. R. La Vallee showed signs of becoming as celebrated as the recent dismissals at the University of Washington (TIME...
Thunder on the Left. As the rumpus spread, the protests grew louder. The Young Progressives made most of the noise. Meanwhile, President Strand's stand got support from some members of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors; the president, they said, was entirely within his rights. Spitzer and La Vallee countered by declaring that they would appeal to the A.A.U.P.: they insisted that they were being fired for their Progressive activities. Finally, Strand's patience snapped...