Telegram Signed by 300 Professors Supports Ousted Spanish Teachers

More than 300 university teachers -- some 60 of them from Harvard -- have signed a telegram condemning Spain's Minister of Education for banning three professors from teaching in Spanish universities for the rest of their lives.

Among the signers were professors of History H. Stuart Hughes and Ernest R. May, Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, and James L. Adams, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Divinity.

The three Spanish professors were dismissed in August after an "academic judge," a professor appointed by the government to study their case, found them guilty of misconduct during student demonstrations at the University of Madrid. The professors had supported the students' right to organize apart from the government-affiliated Espanol Universitario, or Students' Syndicate, which all university students must join.

The director of the signature campaign, Juan B. Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday, "These professors have received messages of support from Britain and countries on the continent. Now we want to show them that their colleagues in the United States stand behind them."

Copies of the telegram will be sent to the Spanish Minister of Education and the Spanish Ambassador to the United States sometime in the next two weeks.

One of the three, Jose Luis Aranguren former professor of Philosophy and Letters at Madrid University will lecture here next week. He will speak on "Ethics and Politics in Spain today," at 8:15 p.m. Monday in Burr Hall; Tuesday night he will lecture in Spanish at a time and place that has not yet been determined.