In April, unable to obtain the 30 signatures necessary to continue, the Young Progressives closed shop. With the closing of the Young Progressives, the organization most prominent in inviting "objectionable" speakers, the issue has finally quieted down at Michigan. And the finality of the Administrative rejection of any change, has effectually closed the issue at the administrative level.

Timidity at Harvard

In an unusual, self-censoring move by a student group the Harvard Law School Forum canceled a scheduled April debate featuring the left-wing novelist Howard Fast. The Forum topic, "Communism in Hollywood," was changed to "Limitations on Free Expression." Fast finally spoke at Harvard, under the auspices of the Harvard Liberal Union, but only after Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 had denounced student timidity in a letter to the Crimson, undergraduate newspaper.

The Law Forum explained its action in a letter to Fast, regretting "that after all the trouble we have put you to, we are compelled to tell you that we cannot present the original forum program as we had planned. As you doubtless understand from the newspapers, putting on such a program at this time would not only embarrass, but hurt, several people connected with the University."

Schlesinger's letter to the Crimson pointed out that the students in this case had acted on their own initiative without "hints from the faculty. It is a stirring commentary," he continued, "on the courage of this new generation that the faculties and governing bodies of a University should be more in favor of free speech than the students."

The day after the appearance of Schlesinger's letter in the Crimson, the Harvard Liberal Union announced its sponsorship of Fast in a debate on the Korean issue. About a hundred people attended, and the consensus after the debate was that Fast had been soundly drubbed.