Word: teacher
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...force or violence." Representative Ralph Sullivan of Boston, author of the measure, claims that charters and tax exemptions are given to colleges by the state in return for such services as "improving standards of education" and "taching respect for authority." He contends that when a college employs a teacher who believes in violent overthrow of the government, that college is no longer fulfilling its responsibilities and should receive no privileges from the state...
...empower the State Commissioner of Education to investigate all colleges and schools to discover whether any members of their faculties were subversive. The State Board of Education would have the power to cancel the tax exemption of a school that did not dismiss a suspected faculty member. If a teacher were actually indicted by the district attorney and convicted by the courts for advocating violent overthrow of the government, the institution which employed him would lose its charter. New York State's Lusk Laws, passed in 1921, are the only precedent for this sort of legislation. Characterized by Governor...
...horns" because of his proposed legislation. A wholesale dismissal of instructors with leftist or "radical" opinions would prevent colleges from giving fair and impartial treatment to many of today's most important problems in the natural and social sciences. Students would no longer be the sole judges of a teacher's lectures; instructors would also have to satisfy the Commissioner of Education. The Sullivan Bill would endanger the academic freedom of every educational institution in the state of Massachusetts...
Crackpots & Misfits. Bing was expelled from high school for sassing a teacher and went to work as a printer's devil, later as a $2.50-a-week office boy at the Detroit News, Michigan's biggest daily (present circ...
...French student of literature who spent a summer at the Seminar said, "with respect to American life of today I can say that the Seminar has been the best teacher I have ever had, and that it is the best way to make people of every nation understand each other...