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...House Un-American Activities Committee criticized the University and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, in a report issued yesterday, because of Mather's backing of Dirk Jan Struik, M.I.T. professor indicted for sedition. Last night Mather would not comment on the report...
Calling for legislation which would make espionage in peacetime punishable by death or life imprisonment, the committee also attacked M.I.T. for permitting Struik to teach after he had been accused of communist activities...
...report stated: "History alone will show how many of Professor Struik's students were led by him down the road of communism ... the administrations of M.I.T. share the responsibility for leading these young people away from American ideals and democratic principles...
...says of Struik, "Dirk was cold and calculating--perhaps the prototype of the pure scientist. He was not only a great mathematician, but an expert in the Marxist theory as well; and he combined these two fields in his flat assumption that the foundation of Stalinism was to be found in science...
...also recalled that at one time Struik addressed the cell to which Philbrick belonged. "In a two-hour harangue, Dr. Struik analyzed the conditions for socialism and revolution in almost every nation in the world...