Education: What Justice Is Done?

Ever since Harvard refused to fire party-lining Physicist Wendell Furry, Senator Joe McCarthy has been furious. Last week he triumphantly announced that a bill is now being prepared to cut the tax exemption privileges of institutions that employ "Fifth Amendment Communists." For those who might favor such a bill, however, President Nathan Pusey had a few words to say in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin.

It is true, said Pusey, that four faculty-men may have been Communists. But "what justice is done to the really typical member of the Harvard faculty, to the 2,900 or...

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