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MATHILDE DUESTER Seymour, Conn...
...President Seymour of Yale has also opposed "witch-hunts." Instead of "witch-hunts," Yale accepted secret reports, FBI interference, and their consequence--fear. Thus, to avoid suspicion that anything of that nature will take place at Harvard, President Conant must go beyond opposition to "witch-hunts." He must state categorically what criteria will and what criteria will not be used for keeping Communists off the faculty. He must do all this first, because until he does, there will be room for doubt within the Harvard academic community. Second and most important, he must do this to re-establish Harvard...
...with messages venching for Mr. Cohen--messages from its own philosophy, physics, and English departments, and from professors at Wesleyan University, where Mr. Cohen had been offered a job but had turned it down to try for the Yale position. Victor L. Butterfield, President of Wesleyan, personally telephoned President Seymour of Yale to register his protest...
They are afraid of Yale's vague policy on appointments. President Charles Seymour has stated, "We do not intend to hire Communists...
What they fear is the methods the university may employ to implement President Seymour's policy. In the one known "Communism case" to date, they know that an inaccurate secret report was used. They are afraid that such voluntary reports may become the normal procedure in "communism cases...