Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Harvard students, who voted for Dewey over Truman by 1013 to 508 in a CRIMSON poll last fall, came out in opposition to the stand taken by President Conant Thursday, when he joined 19 other educators in issuing a report that said, that Communist Party members "should not be employed as teachers...
...cannot allow this misconseption of their statement to stand. President Conant, both as one of the "20" and as the head of an institution which has always meant academic freedom, cannot let this misconception stand. He must make a statement, in Harvard's name as well as his own, contradicting the impression left by the press. We are fundamentally opposed to the President's position that Communists per se are unfit as teachers, but we are confident that his ideals are completely incompatible with those of the "Little Dies" committees. We are confident he would oppose any action resembling...
...Commission's stand against Communist teachers contravenes the position of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors. Last year the A.A.U.P. Committee stated, "(A) teacher should be dismissed because of his acts of disloyalty or because of professional unfitness, and not because he is a Communist...
...Commission cannot afford to remain silent on the ways and means of its policy. The Commission cannot dismiss these problems with a statement deploring indiscriminate smears. There is no question of the sincerity and sober principle of President Conant and his fellow Commissioners. But on this issue they now stand with men of little principle and no discernment, men who are attempting to stifle ideas and change our constitutional guarantees of civil liberties to suit their purposes. So long as President Conant and his colleagues refuse to discuss implementation, these men will be able to say: we have...
First. "A Touch of the Times" was financed on less that $2000, with a final cost per foot so low that Hollywood could well stand to take a lesson. And secondly, as an undergraduate organization, Ivy is doing much to increase respect nationally for student ability and professionalism. So far, Ivy's company at Harvard has been probably the most successful of college movie clubs...