Word: socializing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Robes. It was a court in shirtsleeves. There was nothing about it that was austere or remote. It was earnestly social-minded, close to workaday problems, generally measured its decision by the utilitarian yardstick of "the greatest good for the greatest number." The Nine were no respecters of economic and business traditions...
...than they were. The answer was that their arguments were largely intramural; they had not got in spectacular knockdown fights with other branches of Government, as for example, had their predecessors, the Nine Old Men. That court, dominated by McReynolds, Van Devanter, Sutherland and Butler, defiantly stood against a social revolution. This court was part of the revolution...
Communists are shifty, and treacherous colleagues, and I do not wish to collaborate with them in any program of political or social action; even when they profess to be working with you on this or that issue, their actions reveal that they have different and incompatible ends in view. Hence I think university presidents are justified in not hiring known Communists, and are justified in firing them in cases where a teacher has clearly sacrificed his freedom to use his own independent judgment. Use of this latter power, however, threatens a flood of abuses; it can only be held...
...with this single exception (that of Communist Party members)," the President continued, "which is the unique product of our century, I maintain that a professor's political views, social philosophy or religion are of no concern to the University; nor are his activities within the law as a private citizen...
...teaching profession. I should not want to be a party to the appointment of such a person to a teaching position with tenure in any educational institution. But with this single exception which is the unique product of our century, I maintain that a professor's political views, social philosophy or religion are of no concern in the University; nor are big activities within the law as a private citizen. I do not have to remind this audience that this is the traditional Harvard position and will be maintained in the face of whatever criticisms may come. Admittedly a university...