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...letter to the U. of Washington's President, Henry Schmitz, the scientists defended Oppenheimer and said that Washington had placed itself outside the "community of scholars" by acting in a manner contrary to the interests of academic freedom...
...repercussions of Schmitz' action have shown how the scholar can act to protect himself against such measures. On February 26, Victor Weisskopf, professor at MIT, became the first to boycott Washington for its ban on Oppenheimer. Two weeks later, Harvard professor Perry Miller, in turning down a similar invitation to speak at the University in Seattle, declared, "No self-respecting scholar could talk there now." Last week seven scholars, two of them members of Harvard's medical faculty, joined in refusing to appear at a symposium planned by Washington University's biology department, declaring that the ban on Oppenheimer...
...letter, addressed to Henry Schmitz, president of Washington, said that the institution in refusing to appoint Oppenheimer as a visiting lecturer had "clearly placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars...
...added, "A number of the members of the faculty and a pretty substantial number of students" have also protested the ban on Oppenheimer, and "the protests still go on," he said. "I personally oppose the ban on Oppenheimer very vigorously,' he continued, 'but I see no possibility of President Schmitz rescinding his action." Schmitz last night refused to talk to the CRIMSON...
Professor Thomas J. Pressly of the department of History, responsible for Miller's scheduled lecture, declared. "There are rumors of two or three other refusals like Miller's in the making." Pressly also understood that President Schmitz had recently appeared before the faculty governing board, but had refused to discuss "questions of policy...