Two years ago Harvard's dismissal of two popular, liberal young instructors, John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy, ruffled the leaves of the academic grove but uprooted no trees. When Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, petitioned by the faculty, appointed a faculty committee (including Felix Frankfurter) to investigate the affair, few expected anything to come of it. For Messrs. Walsh and Sweezy, nothing did; President Conant politely turned down the committee's recommendation that the pair be rehired (TIME, June 13).
But the committee went on to investigate the hiring and firing of Harvard teachers generally. Two months ago it delivered a...
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