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The recent ousting of three faculty members of the University of Washington for political reasons was branded yesterday as a "threat to our entire educational system." In a letter to the president of the western college, 150 prominent educators, including Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, asked for the immediate reinstatement of the three professor.
Unless the professor are immediately reinstated, the letter continued, the dismissals, "shocking repudiations" of the traditional American concepts of democracy and academic freedom, will furnish a precedent for the dismissal of any instructor "for any personal beliefs and associations."
The setting of such a precedent would cause irreparable damage to all institutions and particularly to the University of Washington, the letter concluded.
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