Word: witches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the CRIMSON editorial staff during college years, I wish to express hearty approval of your forth right and courageous stand in behalf of academic freedom and Harvard honor, in opposing the "witch-hunting" proposal to exclude from the University's teaching personnel anyone endorsing or supporting the ideals and philosophy of Communism...
...difficult time we live in the eleven Communists on trial in New York are continually adding fuel to the fire by showing how very far from an under-standing of real democracy they are, while at the same time well-intentioned authorities like President Conant decry the witch hunt only to admit its fundamental promises. The Commission seems to say. 'Let us not have a big witch hunt--let us have a moderate little which hunt...
...impression left by the press. We are fundamentally opposed to the President's position that Communists per se are unfit as teachers, but we are confident that his ideals are completely incompatible with those of the "Little Dies" committees. We are confident he would oppose any action resembling a "witch-hunt...
...President Seymour of Yale has also opposed "witch-hunts." Instead of "witch-hunts," Yale accepted secret reports, FBI interference, and their consequence--fear. Thus, to avoid suspicion that anything of that nature will take place at Harvard, President Conant must go beyond opposition to "witch-hunts." He must state categorically what criteria will and what criteria will not be used for keeping Communists off the faculty. He must do all this first, because until he does, there will be room for doubt within the Harvard academic community. Second and most important, he must do this to re-establish Harvard...
...Committee, the standing committee of the Yale Corporation, in the one case in which the facts are known: no card-carrying or de facto Communists will henceforward be admitted to the Yale faculty. The young graduate students and faculty men put it a different way: "There will be no witch-hunts at Yale (quoted from President Charles Seymour), because there will be no witches." What worries the young men is how far the Prudential Committee intends to go with this policy. So far, they know of only one case where an applicant was suspected of Communism. In this case...