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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooking severest criticism, Lowell adamantly refused to remove Laski. "Knowledge can advance... only by means of an unfettered search for truth on the part of those who devote their lives to seeking it...," he said "and by complete freedom in imparting... the truth that they have found. Either the University...
He had hardly finished when conservative Bostonians rose in protest, denouncing him as a traitor and a Bolshevik, accusing the University of supporting the strike and mob rule, (Harvard had actually sent about 200 students to help fill temporary gaps in the force) and demanding that Laski be immediately removed...
"At a time when discussion was being muzzled and the free expression of opinion stifled in many American universities," Morison had said in discussing the Laski incident, the Lowell Administration "acted so as to make every member of the teaching faculties feel that he could teach, write, and say what...
Lowell's last innovation was the Society of Fellows, finally established just before he resigned in 1932-33. Ostensibly the Society was different from his earlier projects because it involved only a small and academically exclusive group instead of all the undergraduates or all the faculties. But fundamentally, it was...
In his report to the faculty for 1930-31, Lowell had urged the establishment of "a Society of Fellows, composed of a limited number of the most brilliant young men that can be found... Such an atmosphere should carry intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country," he said. "To...