during the McCarthy era. The University is
considered by many to have been a strong, if not
the leading, defender of academic freedom. Yet
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some historians, such as Schrecker and Lipset, say
that while Harvard adamantly defended its tenured
professors, who had been communists.
If historians are to get a proper understanding
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