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With but one serious objector, the University Faculty seems united in backing the ultimatum issued yesterday by Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, banning totalitarian visitors from his laboratory...
William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Philosophy, who originally issued a statement condemming the "closed door laboratory policy," this afternoon amended his opinion. He felt that Bridgman "had attacked a real problem." He continued, "The free advance of science is the most tangible superiority of free people. Individual scientists may well feel the responsibility that Professor Bridgman feels...
Emphasizing that he made his stand entirely in his individual capacity and not in connection with a university policy, Bridgman bombarded the totalitarian states with his " 'Manifesto' by a Physicist" in which he stated that he has decided to close his laboratory to visits from citizens of Fascist governments...
...closing the doors of his noted laboratories to visitors from the totalitarian states Bridgman stated, "The totalitarian states do not recognize that the free cultivation of scientific knowledge for its own sake is a worthy end of human endeavor, but have commandeered the scientific activities of their citizens to serve their own purposes...
...Bridgman has created pressures in his laboratory which are the highest yet to be developed...