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Others elected to offices were Gregory P. Baxter, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, J. Seelye Bixler, Bussey Professor of Theology, Samuel B. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sidney B. Fay '06, Professor of History, and Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government...
Igor Strawinski, Serge Elisseeff, Werner W. Jaeger, and Archibald Macleish were among those elected as fellows. Percy W. Bridgman, Sidney B. Fay, Abbott P. Usher and Arthur N. Holcombe were among the officers chosen...
...underground" Communist convention of 1922 (Gitlow, chairman), convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
...have been profoundly disturbed this past fortnight by the pronouncement issued by Professor Bridgman at Harvard relative to the exchange of scientific information with totalitarian countries. . . . My apprehension has developed for two reasons. The first is that this statement may lead the general public to believe that such an attitude has been generally adopted by scientists . . . (and) secondly I feel that this manifesto represents in a way a rising tide of hatred and intolerance...
...believe that Professor Bridgman errs as a scientist, for science and truth can never be the property of any one nation or of any one political theory. . . . The only way to expose the falseness of the doctrines of Fascism and Naziism is to provide for the greatest possible exchange of information so that the inconsistency and failures of these theories may be illuminated by the dazzling light of truth: Even while he is decrying totalitarianism Professor Bridgman succumbs to it by his methods, since he would employ the same type of tactics as they...