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...Over sixty professors, clergymen, and other citizens of Massachusetts" have formed a new committee to aid Dirk J. Struik, suspended M.I.T. professor, George Sarton, professor of History and Science, emeritus, and the Committee's chairman, announced yesterday...
...Struik Defense Committee plans to send appeals "to as many people as possible to get contributions," according to Sarton. The committee's first statement, released yesterday, declared. "We believe that Professor Struik should have the right to express his views without intimidation... Agreement or disagreement with Professor Struik's views are not the issue here...
...move to set up the Struik Defense Committee began several weeks ago when Sarton sent Mather a letter saying that the Civil Liberties Union, of which Mather is a member, had not been speaking out on this matter and that "we ought to do something for Struik...
...foreign-born professors, George Sarton and Audre Morize, who were born in the same year and who began teaching here within a year of one another, are retiring at the end of this semester...
...Sarton, professor of the History of Science, was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1884, came to this country in 1915, and took his first teaching position here in 1916. He gave up teaching two years ago to devote himself to writing down and editing the lectures he had given in his four History of Science courses...