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...recent report, the House Un-American Activities Committee expressed considerable consternation over the scope of academic freedom. The Committee singled out Geology professor Kirtley F. Mather and M.I.T. Mathematics professor Dirk Jan Struik as examples of what can happen to American education when teachers go beyond bounds that the House Committee believes proper. According to the Committee, Mather is a man "who exerts influence over thousands of students at Harvard University" and who possibly may be leading his charges along the ill-fated path of the Rosenbergs and the Hisses...
Similar charges were made against Struik who was suspended by M.I.T. following his indictment on conspiracy charges. The Committee described him as a "communist teacher of violent overthrow of the government." Both Struik and Mather the Committee contends, should have been dismissed by their respective colleges as soon as they were accused--no matter by whom--of sympathy with communism...
...Struik, who is withholding comment of the report as a whole until today, said yesterday that "I would like to remind the committee that I have been teaching only mathematics...
...committee criticized Mather for writing a letter to clergymen asking them to hold meetings to get acquainted with Struik...
...committee stated: "With individuals like Professors Struik and Mather teaching in our leading universities, your committee wonders who the Professors Struiks were at Harvard who led Alger Hiss along the road of communism until he committed espionage against his country...