Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the scheduled strike, on May 19, faculty advisors to the A.V.C. and the Progressive Coalition Party resigned. The administration said that the A.V.C. advisor resigned "In protest against A.V.C.'s support of stoppage." But in a telegram to the Board of Higher Education, the local Teachers Union charged that these men "were called before the Dean of Students and requested to resign, thus preventing the existence of these clubs on campus, though no specific charges against the conduct of these clubs have been levelled...
...Like most if not all of my other colleagues on the Williams faculty," Williams College President James Phinney Baxter, 3rd, wrote in an article for his school's May, 1949, Alumni Review number, "I support the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic Pact, and the furnishing of military supplies to our fellow signatories...
...Spitzer letter was that the Lysenko theory had not been given a scientific trial and that "in the interests of scientific objectivity" it would be wise to read the theory from source material rather than from condensed translations. Spitzer gave the impression that there was some evidence in support of the Russian theory, which is held in low repute by almost all western geneticists...
Strand, again in his statement charged. "He (Spitzer) supports the charistan Lysenko in preference to what he must know to be the truth." Spitzer answered. "I did not support Lysenko in my letter in any case, it is aboard to reason that agreement with a Soviet scientific theory is evidence of adherence to a party line...
...Support came from alumni and faculty. A Federation of Olivet Alumni was organized, which financed the S. A. C. And at a meeting declared illegal by Ashby, the faculty resolved 11 to 5 that the demonstrators "Have acted . . . with sincerity, and . . . we respect them for their stand...