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Teachers must strengthen "their connection with organized labor as the greatest force opposed . . . to any destruction of that intellectual freedom out of which our educational system has grown," Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English, told 400 Massachusetts educators Saturday.
The president of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers was speaking at the conclusion of the third annual conference of the Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Teachers. Attendance at the conference held at Harvard was more than four times as great as in past years.
Simmons wound up proceedings with a plea for "wide organized efforts" against "these very organized forces of evil which are extinguishing the lamps of learning in the world today."
Highlights on the program, which consisted chiefly of round-table conferences, were addresses by Ned Desrborn, Dean of General Education at N. Y. U., and by Gordon W. Allport '18, associate professor of psychology. Allport filled in for Kurt Lewin, lecturer on Dynamic Psychology.
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