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Academic freedom cases

Corresondence, statements, faculty, committee reports, clippings, photostatic material, testimony transcripts, resolutions, and printed materials (bulk 1952-1953) regarding the cases of University professors Heimlich, Finley, and Glasser from the records of the Office of the President (Lewis Webster Jones). Correpsondents include Harvard Law School Professors Zechariah Chaffee, Jr. and Arthur E. Sutherland, who wrote the letter to the Harvard Crimson arguing against the use of the Fifth Amendment before Congressional Committees, Henry R. Brandis, Jr., Chairman of the 1956 Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), whose corrrespondence includes an enclosure of the Committee's review of the Glasser case, Ralph E. Himstead, General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Alfred E. Driscoll, the Governor of New Jersey, who strongly favored dismissal, and Provost Mason W. Gross, regarding locating a position for Finley at another university. Also included are confidential documents of University Dean Herbert P. Woodward regarding accusations against Finley before Congress by former Communists William Martin Canning and Karl August Wittfogel, and documentation on the dismissal of alleged Communist Myron L. Hoch, part-time Professor of Economics at Rutgers. Committees created by Jones to review the cases and advise further action include the Trustee-Faculty-Alumni Committee of Review, chaired by Trustee Tracy S. Voorhees.

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