Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a limitation of freedom that is completely out of line with the Harvard approach to dealing with conflicts between the wishes of the individual and the University. Professors, for instance, are free to do what they wish without threat of University discipline except under the direst of circumstances. Thus a professor who was convicted of murder was not fired or otherwise disciplined by the University...
Students too, and their organizations, should have the same rights. This is not merely an espousal of the liberal tradition under which Harvard operates, but a matter of sound administrative policy. As President Lowell pointed out in his classic statement on academic freedom, a University cannot regulate its professors' freedom of action without at the same time making itself responsible for everything that professors do. The parallel with student freedoms is striking. If the Dean's Office limits the freedom of student activities in order to solve the four problems outlined in previous editorials in this series...
...Freedoms of Harvard University students and the groups they form are not alienable. Just as the Harvard Dean's Office has not the right to limit the groups, so national organizations have not the right. Therefore Harvard organizations may not surrender to outside groups their right to freedom of action and must remain antonomous...
...according to what the Dean's Office thinks is in the best interests of Harvard. The groups do not exist to further the ends of the Dean, they exist to further the ends of their members. So long as they are genuinely Harvard in character, with financial responsibility and freedom of action, there is no reason why they should be the responsibility of, or subject to, the Dean's Office...
...science pollster be precisely advised, at all times, of the risk he assumes. All realistic persons know that we live in an age of Loyalty Commissions and Congressional Investigations: letter carriers are fired for subscribing to "New Masses" and Navy Yard workers are dismissed for possessing Howard Fast's "Freedom Road." Any "scientist" who would investigate people's political, social, sexual, or religious attitudes and values owes a duty to the privacy and dignity of the people he questions. That duty is to warn the justifiably apprehensive respondent of the use to be made of the information procured. This duty...