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Resolutions affirming the Bridgman Manifesto and backing the Student Council investigation of the Feild case featured the meeting of the Student Union last night...
Your recent editorial criticism of Professor Bridgman's Manifesto derives logically from the values of a democratic society. But there is a limit to the consistency of courses of action; self defense is part of a deeper logic for all men and all societies. At the present juncture of world circumstance, you have uttered a counsel in the logic of self-destruction...
...true that actions similar to Professor Bridgman's involve us in a vicious circle where defense of our traditions paradoxically subverts them. In any case, some sort of implementation of our beliefs is necessary. Tolerance of intolerance insidiously becomes suicide...
...carefully protected from reporters who sought his opinion on the Bridgman Manifesto. Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy said yesterday afternoon, however, that his ban on representatives from totalitarian states from his laboratories, in no way affected the German refugee since he would be connected with a completely different department...
...impractical because, by barring totalitarians from his laboratories, Bridgman does not prevent them from obtaining the information contained therein. If anything of military importance is developed in the Bridgman sanctum sanctum, it is being sane rather than romantic, to admit that the dictatorships can easily obtain the required information at second hand. But the most telling criticism levelled at the recent ban is not one of impracticality. By endeavoring to combat fascism by means of a typical fascist technique, the learned professor is setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom...