Word: statemently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conant's joined in a splendid public statement on Communist teachers today gives the reassurance I was seeking--that Harvard is alive to that menace. Appropriate steps to implement that policy are now in order. I sincerely hope that the principle of our statute, taken from the Federal loyalty program, may contribute to the solution of this exceedingly difficult problem...
...Such a statement, calling for a loyalty check and inspired by the Commission's stand, is exactly what the CRIMSON feared. Thus it is heartening to read the statement written by the third of the Harvard men, Grenville Clark, with the approval of the Corporation...
...Lied." Hulking (6 ft. 4 in.), brown-mustached Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Murphy rose to make his opening statement as undramatically as if he were reading a directors' report. He spoke dispassionately: the case of the U.S. v. Alger Hiss was a simple one-just a matter of two counts of perjury before a grand jury...
Unfortunately, although the "20" knew education and knew the clashing ideologies of the world today, they did not know newspapers, or, more fundamentally, what is considered newsworthy. Thus the whole statement, at least in its first fruits, completely backfired. Moreover, this backfire goes far deeper than the average newspaper reader; it goes down to the average educator, to the school board member in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This school board member will probably never read the complete statement of the "20." From his newspaper, however, he has gathered that top educators believe in tossing out the "Reds"--"Reds" exactly...
...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...