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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
Monday's minority editorial on ROTC continued the unfortunate myth of Harvard's official reverence for academic freedom. A study of the Faculty records after President Conant's resignation, and through Pusey's appointment, shows that three junior Faculty members had their contracts terminated for refusing to testify before the HUAC about assorted Communist connections. (See Jared Israel's "Free Speech at Harvard" in the Progressive Labor Boston News, Fall, 1968, reprinted in the second issue of The Old Mole.) This policy was reaffirmed by Pusey before the SFAC last Spring--though his statement that a member of a communist party would be unfit to serve on the Faculty eluded the CRIMSON.Hutch Jenness '69
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