Word: ginn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though it failed to block the lectures, this campaign was not without its effects. The Harvard Administration was quite thoroughly alienated by what it considered a vindictive and useless attack. Edwin Ginn '18, an agent of the Harvard Fund, dramatically resigned his post in protest against Oppenheimer's appointment. A group of undergraduates revived a small organization called the Harvard Athenaeum in support of Veritas and later the Committee gave financial support to the conservative review Fortnightly...
...members of the committee besides Roosevelt are Edwin Ginn '18, Robert H. Montgomery, Lispenard Phister, Fred Roberts, and Kenneth Robertson '29 from Boston, and William I. Robertson '31 and Arthur Harlow '25 from New York...
...Ginn resigned from his position as class agent in protest over Oppenheimer's appointment. At that time he called him "a known Communist sympathizer and confessed liar in matters of espionage...
...Ginn stood firm on his decision, however, and surrendered his post as class agent. Incidents like this are few, McCord points out, but nevertheless regrettable. In his work, he tries to ironout such difficulties before they attain a certain notoriety...
When Edwin Ginn '18 resigned as class agent because of the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer for 1957, McCord spoke with him at some length about the problem and tried to convince Ginn that the one event such as a year's appointment should not make him forget all the other things which made him proud of Harvard...