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...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...
...Ginn is a fool," said Perry G.E. Miller, professor of American Literature. "It is obvious that he has not read the proceedings of Oppenheimer's hearing or understood anything that has happened," he added...
...scholarship," he continued, "Oppenheimer is one of our great physicists and a distinguished philosopher of science. He was declared loyal moreover, not only by the Atomic Energy Commission, but also by Mr. Conant, who presided over this University in the good old days which Mr. Ginn is said to prefer...
Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology, the other department which is sponsoring Oppenheimer, said that Ginn's statement was "so emontionally over-determined that it is best to ignore it. I know Oppenheimer fairly well. He is a very responsible and loyal citizen of the United States...