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According to Prof. Fritz Machlup of Princeton, President of the AAUP, Harvard qualified for an AA rating in all categories except associate professor. He believes that Harvard will probably qualify in this category next year...
...Fritz Machlup, president of the AAUP and a member of the faculty of Princeton University, explained last night that most American universities have incorporated these recommendations into their by-laws...
...Machlup pointed out that the AAUP never takes action unless the aggrieved individual makes a complaint. If Alpert does not protest his dismissal, therefore, the AAUP will not enter the case. Alpert has not indicated that he will complain to the Association...
...about the accepted view that a Communist professor is automatically dishonest and thus unfit to teach? "The fundamental principle of American justice," says Machlup, is "that guilt is personal and cannot be proved by opinion or association; we cannot make party membership a decisive criterion." If the Communist is demonstrably dishonest, he must go. Then, suppose he honestly preaches totalitarianism? "If we silence him," says Machlup, "then we have actually abrogated freedom of speech, whereas he has merely talked about doing...
...freedom this far. In 1953, Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold argued in a landmark statement that a professor must have both "integrity and independence" and the "affirmative obligation of being diligent and loyal in citizenship." Captive scholarship was just as far from his mind as from Machlup's, but he meant to make it clear that professors must defend the country in time of danger...