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Professor Harlow Shapley will enter the fight for wider classroom freedom with a new Commission for Academic Freedom which starts work next week in New York. He named recent text-book and magazine bannings and threats against teachers who "exercise political rights" as the main causes for grievance...
Also Kenneth B. Murdock, Benjamin D. Paul, Ralph Barton Porry, Edward M. Purcell, Gaetano Salvemini, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Harlow Shapley, M. Brewster Smith, Pitirim A. Sorokin, O. H. Taylor, Robert Ulich, Karl Vietor, Andrews Wanning, John D. Wild, and Donald C. Williams
...Harlow Shapley, Director of the College Observatory, last night made an off-the-record attack on the Thomas Un-American Activities Committee in a speech sponsored by the American Association of Scientific Workers and the Association of Cambridge Scientists. After the speech, a petition strongly attaching the Committee's action in the Condon case was circulated...
Answering charges leveled by New York University Professor James Burham accusing him of continously finding excuses for Soviet activities. Dr. Shapley explained that "possibly Professor Burnham was acting on a directive from the J. Parnell Thomas Committee...
Scientists are being discouraged from cooperation in government projects, continued Dr. Shapley, in which "they may be subjected to the smears and terrorisms of the Congressional committee...