Word: struik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of Dirk Struik, M.I.T. faculty member accused in 1951 of advocating the violent overthrow of the government, was re-opened yesterday when the Massachusetts Commission on Communism asked M.I.T. to review the "question of Professor Dirk Struick's fitness to be a member of the faculty...
...Commission's report said that Struik's retention on the faculty of M.I.T. "has been of great aid and comfort to the Communist Party of the United States...
...State of Massachusetts indicted Struik on subversive charges and he was suspended with pay from his job at M.I.T. "until the outcome of the trial became known." His case never came to trial and in May, 1956, the indictment was dropped as a result of the Supreme Court ruling denying the states the privilege of prosecuting sedition...
...Struik was reinstated this fall after being formally censured by the M.I.T. executive committee "for his comparative lack of candor with the members of the administration." During the fall term he taught two classes in advanced calculus...
...M.I.T. announced that it has reinstated Mathematician Dirk Struik to the rank of full professor. In 1951, when a Massachusetts grand jury indicted Struik for plotting the violent overthrow of the government, M.I.T. suspended him with full pay and without prejudice. Though the state later dropped its case, M.I.T. decided to carry on an investigation of its own. The gist of the faculty committee's findings: Struik has never made any secret of his Marxist views, but there is no proof that he has ever been a member of the Communist Party or that his beliefs have interfered with...