Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether because of the erratic distribution of the second class mail or for some other cause, your edition of May seventh was not delivered to me in Baltimore with the result that I have not until today seen the article of Mr. James K. Glassman called "A Report on the Future of the University." Because that article quotes from a report of an interview with me which appeared in the Baltimore Sun but fails to note the corrections which were later published in the journal, I hope that you will permit me to set the record straight...
What I said was that the Governing Boards at Harvard had always avoided taking official positions on political questions for two reasons. First, they had no right to speak on such subjects for the Harvard constituency, which includes all of its faculty, students, as well as its alumni. Second, to do so would be to invite political interference which could take many forms, any one of which would be disastrous to academic freedom. It was in that connection that I used the simile of slapping a lion in the face...
...Second, I was never "freed" because I was neither held nor officially accused of any misconduct. I might add that numerous witnesses of the events in Dunster courtyard were prepared to testify in my behalf had it been necessary...
...Yard are no joke. This does not mean, however, that humor outside of University Hall must be exclusively bad humor. The following true and false examination, modeled in shadowy fashion after that of the famed Professor Morgan's course in evidence that used to cause chills and fevers to second-year men at Harvard Law School, may serve as a useful purpose in enabling readers of the CRIMSON to calibrate various aspects of the local situation...
...standard, Eliot's Scott Guild was the hero of the day as he won three events and came in second in another. Running in the indoor track bubble because of bad weather, Guild captured the 60-yard dash in 6.4 seconds, the 240-yard run in 27.4 seconds, and the running broad jump with a leap of 19 ft. 7 1/2 in. He also came in second in the high jump behind Kirkland's Mehmed Kayal, who jumped...