"What Justice Is Done?"

Ever since Harvard refused to fire party-lining Physicist Wendell Furry, Senator Joe McCarthy has been furious. Last week he triumphantly announced that a bill is now being prepared to cut the tax exemption privileges of institutions that employ "Fifth Amendment Communists." For those who might favor such a bill, however, President Nathan Pusey had a few words to say in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin.

It is true, said Pusey, that four faculty-men may have been Communists. But "what justice is done to the really typical member of the Harvard faculty, to the 2,900 or more others who are our true representatives--including the men who invented the iron lung, those on whose researches in atomic energy ... in radar and sonar ... the late military effort so largely depended; Dr. Cohn and his fractionation of blood and all the lives saved because of his researches ... or Harvard's six Nobel Prizewinners; and most important perhaps of all, the humanists whose efforts [bring] us into fresh awareness of new reaches of the human spirit? Are these men . . . not to count in the scales against the others?"

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