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...Struik Case Review...
Philbrick yesterday named Mather and Dirk Struik of M.I.T. as having been sponsors of the Cambridge Youth Council in 1940, when he learned it was a Communist front organization. "I assumed that if they were connected with Harvard and M.I.T. this organization would, of course, be all right," Philbrick told the Committee...
...already too late, for individuals of more moderate persuasion to intelligently discuss both the moral strategic requirements of the situation. But here is just as little to be gained from Mr. Moore's assumption that the McCarthyites will respond to sweetness and light, as there is in Professor Struik's assumption that a Communist is merely a persecuted non-conformist. It is unfortunate that last Wednesday evening it was left up to a young Yale law student to seek to give this problem the thinking it deserves. Mr. Lowenstein was alone in attempting to weigh the social good against...
...feel that the actions of the Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Student Council in the preparation of the discussion "Should Universities Be Investigated?" did irreparable harm to the cause of Harvard and other universities in the same position. By inviting Dirk Struik, the Council not only laid its flanks bare for outside attack, but also presented an intemperate extremist and a disappointing defender of academic freedom...
...find Communists because they're hiding somewhere under the guise of Socialists," asserted Robertson. Citing Struik as the "best reason for an investigation," he read from the magazine "Communist" of 1937 that teaching was the most important step in taking over a country...