Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard men. But in the case of Communists teaching at Harvard, Sen. McCarthy is right, and Harvard is then holly wrong. Wendell Furry has defied the United States Government and refused to answer questions on the ground that to do so would tend to incriminate him thereby proclaiming himself unfit to teach. How long would Harvard tolerate a criminal in its student body? Sincerely, Helen Lee Woodward West Orange, New York
...signal for Harold Riegelman, Republican candidate for mayor, to put Wagner on a really hot spot. Said Riegelman "Wagner could not go far in this campaign without revealing a reckless dishonesty and cowardice . . . He had better put up promptly or be forever branded as totally untrustworthy and unfit." This week Governor Dewey's counsel George M. Shapiro, wired Wagner: "Name . . . the alleged person or publicly retract...
Deserve to Be Immortal. In his 72 years of life (he died in 1936), Miguel de Unamuno was forever in trouble. A fiery liberal, he was once exiled by Primo de Rivera, accused Alfonso XIII of being "unfit" to govern, attacked the republic and the rebels in turn, was finally dismissed by Franco. Though passionately religious, he could find no proof in logic for the immortality of the soul, felt that the only thing man could do was to "spend your life so that you deserve to be immortal." To some segments of official Spain, Unamuno was a heretic...
...colleges . . . Communist teachers exercise, as part of an organized conspiracy, an influence far more extensive than their numbers would indicate ... It falls upon the educators themselves to devise criteria and methods to deal with teachers whose adherence to the Communist conspiracy, though not legally provable, makes them morally unfit to teach." As for the teacher who takes refuge behind the 5th Amendment, he "violates his trust and forfeits his right to shape the character of our youth...
...officials, that group in education most prone to compromise academic freedom in the past, will stand behind them. Our universities have a responsibility to the public and themselves to expel teachers who have broken the law, or whose totalitarian beliefs so twist their teaching and research to render them unfit for their profession. But they have an equal responsibility to make sure the implication of unfitness that springs from use of the Fifth Amendment, membership in subversive groups, or any other indirect evidence is backed up by fact before any teacher is disciplined. In this way, mutual trust between universities...