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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short, Mrs. Roosevelt, oracle to millions of housewives, would bring them face to face with Right and Wrong as a world issue. "Not to do so," she says, "would be, for me, not to live, but to have a sort of oyster-like existence." If nothing else will preserve Right, she would approve...
Sponsors of the petition expressed considerable satisfaction with the numbers of signatures which almost doubled their original expectations and felt that the University would be forced to take some sort of action in the course of the next few weeks...
...petitioners, I dare venture, do not all have very intimate knowledge of Mr. Hicks's "teaching ability," but are more probably "liberals" of the sort whose hearts throb and cheeks flush at the thought of the persecuted communist, and who are enamored of the heroic and dangerous elements in a position which they are unable to defend logically, and which they would be too timid to defend outside of academic spheres...
Those who promote and give publicity to this sort of petition only call attention to the presence at Harvard of numerous "liberals" of this unwholesome type. Their publicity antics serve merely to convince the University that radical thinkers like Hicks constitute a dangerous influence on immature minds. Worse still, these agitators confirm the proponents of the Teachers' Oath Bill in their belief that academic liberties must be restrained. Avery Dulles...
This statement seems to imply that the Department of the Classics is somewhat of a laggard in the attempt to combine its own field with other related fields in a general program of humanism. The exact opposite is the truth. The first combined field of the sort described was not History and Literature but "Literature," in which either Greek or Latin is combined with some Modern Language. This plan was initiated by members of the Departments of the Classics and Modern Languages in 1903, History and Literature following in 1906. I happened to be a member of both committees...