SIDEBAR: HARVARD STOOD UP TO MCCARTHY, WITH EXCEPTIONS
Many universities came under Sen. Joseph McCarthy's scrutiny in the early 1950s, and some chose to fire those who the senator accused. McCarthy and his colleagues made Harvard a special target of their crusades, holding special hearings in Boston to examine suspect professors.
"I cannot conceive of anyone sending their children anywhere where they might be open to indoctrination by Communist professors," McCarthy said of Harvard.
Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28, an old McCarthy rival from his Wisconsin days, vehemently denied the senator's charges. He said that while he believed there were no Communists on the Harvard faculty, if he found any he would dismiss them.
"A member of the Communist party is not fit to be on the faculty because he has not the necessary independence of thought and judgment," Pusey said.
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