Word: schmitz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...told the CRIMSON last night that he has revealed his refusal in a letter to Professor Thomas J. Pressly of Washington's department of History, stating that he was "profoundly distressed by the recent action of President Henry Schmitz." On February 14, Schmitz vetoed a request from the department of Physics to invite Oppenheimer for three months of lectures. "No Scholar Could Talk There...
Students Petition Against Schmitz...
...next day, the State Board of Regents upheld President Schmitz by refusing a petition form over 1,000 University students seeking an invitation for the physicist. The Atomic Energy Commission last spring declared Oppenheimer a "security risk" but did not question his loyalty...
...University of Washington, said President Henry Schmitz in ringing tones when he took over in 1952, is "virile, dynamic and democratic . . . On the matter of the freedom of the university, I believe that the institution has a deep commitment to itself. The university must be a place where controversial issues may be discussed objectively and with reassuring intelligence. It must be tolerant of widely varying opinion...
Last week President Schmitz apparently decided that he had serious doubts about what President Schmitz had once said: when his own physics department invited J. Robert Oppenheimer to give some science lectures at Washington, Schmitz vetoed the whole idea as not being "in the best interests" of that virile, dynamic and democratic institution...