Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also upheld the statement of President Conant in response to the investigating committee when he refused to reappoint the two men when it said, "the Corporation is of the opinion that it would be both unwise and impractical to follow the Committee's recommendations. We find no difficulty in accepting the judgment of the President and Fellows, in preference to that of the Committee, as to whether mistakes were made because of understandings among different departments of the University, whether President Conant's ruling in rgard to promotions was ill-advised, etc. Decision on these and related subjects should...
...statement said: "The Union believes that the central issue--that two promising academic careers have, in effect, been terminated--has not been squarely met. The Union therefore emphatically supports the recommendation of the Committee...
...total of fifty names are attached to the statement, including Henry J. Cadbury, professor of Theology, Dean Cary, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Ernest J. Simmons, assistant professor of English, and Paul M. Sweezy '31, instructor in Economics. Excerpts from the protest follow...
...letter also claims that the statement in Conant's letter to the Board of Overseers, which said that the report overemphasized the extent to which misunderstanding between the Administration and the Economics Department may have affected the case, was "unsupported by concrete evidence...
...would be both unwise and impractical. " . . . We wish to reaffirm our entire confidence in the Committee . . . On the other hand, our misgivings about the Administration that rose from this case have not been dispelled . . . We do not see how it was possible for the President to issue his final statement within a week after receiving your report and still declare that all its issues had been "carefully canvassed...