Word: yales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...information which led to the uncovering of the following story was given the CRIMSON by individuals who had heard rumors of the situation at Yale and believed it would make an interesting sequel to the series on academic freedom which the CRIMSON printed last week. The story itself is presented as a case study of what happens to an academic community under the pressure of administrative and governmental fears of Communism...
...Yale University is caught in a mystifying web of "cold war" security. So is Harvard. So is M.I.T. So is the country. What makes Yale different is that Yale is scared--scared right out of its civil liberties. The older faculty men, secure in tenure appointments, are just worried. Certain faculties, notably those of the law and medical schools, are not even worried. But the younger faculty members and the graduate students, especially in the physics department are scared stiff. "We're afraid to open our mouths on any idea left of Wilsonian liberalism," one physics instructor says. Other young...
...this true at Yale? There are two reasons. The first is the appointment policy followed by the Prudential 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...
...this the method of keeping Communists off the Yale faculty, the young men ask. If so, they might as well forget there ever was such a thing as freedom of speech...
Every time Harvard has had a good crew the question of the Poughkeepsie regatta has come up--always with the same answer: the HAA and its Yale counterpart have been unable to schedule the New London race so that the two crews can row at Poughkeepsie too. There are undeniable obstacles: the date of the race falls between the commencement exercises of the two schools, and the timing of exams and training for the regatta have made entrance in the Hudson affair impossible, as far as the respective booking agencies were concerned. But surely some solution can be worked...