Percy Bridgman Bans Fascists in Fiery Manifesto

Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, threw down the gauntlet to the totalitarian states today in one of the most outspoken denunciations of the Fascist states yet made by anyone in high Faculty circles.

Emphasizing that he made his stand entirely in his individual capacity and not in connection with a university policy, Bridgman bombarded the totalitarian states with his " 'Manifesto' by a Physicist" in which he stated that he has decided to close his laboratory to visits from citizens of Fascist governments.

Science Not National

In closing the doors of his noted laboratories to visitors from the totalitarian states Bridgman stated, "The totalitarian states do not recognize that the free cultivation of scientific knowledge for its own sake is a worthy end of human endeavor, but have commandeered the scientific activities of their citizens to serve their own purposes.

"Science has been rightly recognized as probably the only human activity which knows no nationalisms; for this reason it has been a potent factor making for universal civilization."

Bridgman has created pressures in his laboratory which are the highest yet to be developed by man.