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Professors in three departments have defended J. Robert Oppenheimer in reaction to the protest of his appointment as William James Lecturer by Edwin Ginn '18 a Boston financier. One called Ginn "a fool...
...Ginn resigned from the Harvard Fund Council, calling the noted physicist "a know Communist sympathizer and confessed liar in a matter of espionage." David McCord '21, executive secretary of the Council reported yesterday that Ginn's was the only letter attacking the appointment among many he received about...
Paul C. Cabot '21, treasurer of the College, pointed out in a letter to Ginn, that "both the Corporation and the Board of Overseers--which is directly representative of alumni interests in the policies of the University--carefully considered the Oppenheimer appointment before it was made. It came with the firm endorsement of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Ginn said yesterday that he had received many letters and phone calls supporting his position and that there was "quite a feeling around" among alumni that the Oppenheimer appointment was a bad policy. However, he personally does not plan any further action among alumni...
...letter to Cabot, Ginn replied "If great achievements are to be the criteria for appointment despite mistakes in judgment (even in a matter of espionage), why not select Alger Hiss and Richard Whitney to serve on the corporation...