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It is strange that some conservative Congressmen feel concerned that educational programs of the foundations set up by three of America's most influential industrialists are really designed to build a welfare state in America. Yet the Reece Committee won its initial appropriation last July by claiming that it could...
Within educational borders, however, the Government should give the foundations control over their own policies. For in trying to ensure that universities teach only the "ancient traditions" of the country the Reece Committee is bound to violate one: that of the freedom to uncover fresh ideas.
"An especially determined and careful effort" to uncover campus subversives has proved highly unproductive, he noted, referring to an unnamed university with a teaching and research staff of 3,000, where only four questionable individuals had been found. The situation elsewhere, he said, "has been very much the same."
Convinced that "Harvard is a fine University and that McCarthy could not uncover 'a very smelly mess here," Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics will defend this belief when he appears on "Meet the Press" Sunday night.
Last night, he said: "I believe that the Harvard Corporation after a thorough and deliberate consideration reached a just and wise decision in the cases of Professor Furry and three others last spring. I further believe that Harvard in a fine University and that McCarthy could not uncover 'a very...