Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to these correspondents, Dean Bender issued a statement re-affirming the right of any recognized student group to invite to Harvard any speaker it wishes. The statement read in part...
...speakers threatened to corrupt our youth. Some people would bar President Truman, others Senator Taft. Still others would bar anti-vivisectionists or opponents of birth control or World Federalists or Christian Scientists or Monsignor Sheen or Colonel McCormick. The answer is not suppression of "dangerous" ideas . . . but more vigorous statement of American ideas, and faith which would be well-founded in the ability of our students to distinguish between good and evil...
Dean Bender's statement is a welcome one, especially in contrast to his action in the New Student case last spring. At that time, the Dean's Office refused to grant recognition as a Harvard publication to the left-wing magazine principally on the grounds that a high percentage of its contents was written by non-Harvard authors. Yet literary magazines have often printed issues written entirely outside Harvard without protest from University Hall. Thus the political content of The New Student seemed to be the key factor in determining University Hall's stand against the magazine...
...light of this background, the recent statement was a very encouraging one. At a time when academic freedom in particular, and freedom of speech in general, are taking a bad beating because of the current wave of anti-communist hysteria, Dean Bender's strong re-affirmation of faith in the free exchange of ideas is a welcome reassurance that there are those who will not let themselves be brow-beaten by J. Parnell Thomas--or Fulton Lewis...
...Washington, called attention to an error in your article called "Penalty for Secrecy" [TIME, Jan. 31]. Dr. Gundlach's letter was printed in part by you [TIME, Feb. 21] together with an Editor's note [which] in practical effect, accused Dr. Gundlach of making a false statement in his letter when he said: ". . . Before the University of Washington Faculty Committee I was charged with being a Communist. This is not true; and I answered clearly and unequivocally that I was not a Communist...