Ginger had a three-year contract as an assistant professor that he was forced to abandon, but there is still no known case in which a tenured professor was forced to resign.
To scholars and those who lived through the period, Harvard’s action against Ginger—though extreme—is typical of what they view as a general mistreatment of suspected Communists.
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“Harvard was not nearly as brave as it
could have been,” said Professor of the History of Science Everett Mendelsohn, who was questioned about his political ties when he was a Harvard graduate student during the McCarthy period. “They were nervous and anyone who they could drop they did.”
—Staff writer Joshua E. Gewolb can be reached at gewolb@fas.harvard.edu.
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