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...refuse to testify. Ostensibly, the report applies the same standards of fitness to both, but the results are quite different. Here lies the weakness of an otherwise excellent policy statement. Tomorrow's editorial will examine the illogic of the AAU's decision that tenured communists in all cases are unfit to teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigations and the AAU: I | 4/8/1953 | See Source »

Sears' letter to Dean Griswold of the Law School asked for the twins' expulsion, calling them "unfit for admission to the bar of any of our states and unfit to continue as students at the Harvard Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lubells Defend Actions; Attack Sears' Statement | 4/8/1953 | See Source »

...refer, of course, to the problem of the Lubell brothers, who by their defiant refusal to answer questions asked them by a properly constituted legislative investigating committee, and their invocation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution as the basis for that refusal, have proven themselves unfit for admission to the bar of any of our states, and, of course, unfit to continue as student at the Harvard Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sears, State Bar Chairman, Asks Griswold Fire Lubells | 4/7/1953 | See Source »

...Wellesley, Eleanor Roosevelt told delegates from 25 colleges: "All we have done so far is to frighten the wits out of the American people ... I contend that faculties and presidents know their people better than anyone else and are better able to judge whether men and women are unfit to teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Clamor & Calm | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...positive side, in his crusade for "honest religion," he has advocated euthanasia, rigorous, scientific birth control, and sterilization of the unfit as a means of keeping the population manageable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bold, Bad Bishop | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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