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University of Illinois Press, 2008), p. 142. See also Robert W. Dubay, “The Opposition to
Selective Service,” Southern Quarterly 7 (1969): 301–322.
184. For example, Julius Kahn to NMB, 27 August 1917, S. Wallace Dempsey to
NMB, 28 August 1917, JMC papers, CUA; E. R. Bathrick to NMB, 10 September 1917,
Pine collection.
185. ERAS to “Members of the Committee of Nine,” 5 September 1917, ERAS to
FJEW, 6 September 1917, FJEW to ERAS, 7 September 1917, ERAS to FJEW, 15
September 1917, ERAS to Dewey, 18 September 1917, JMC papers, CUA.
186. Minutes of the Committee of Nine, 24 September 1917, ERAS to George L.
Ingraham, 24 September 1917, ERAS papers.
187. Pine to NMB, 21 September 1917, Frank D. Fackenthal, to JMC, 24 September
1917, JMC to Fackenthal, 25 September 1917, Pine to Ingraham, 25 September 1917, 28
September 1917, NMB to the [Trustees’] Committee on Education, 28 September 1917,
JMC papers, CUA.
188. FJEW to ERAS, 28 March 1917, ERAS papers.
189. For example, James C. Egbert to ERAS, 4 September 1917, ERAS papers;
Arthur L. Walker et al. to NMB, 19 September 1917, JMC papers, CUA.
190. For example, Boas to NMB, 29 September 1917, Boas papers, CUA.
191. Dewey to ERAS, 25 September 1917, ERAS papers.
192. FJEW, “The Deliberations Regarding the Cases of Professor Cattell and Dana
. . .,” undated draft statement; NMB to FJEW, 17 October 1917, FJEW papers.
193. NMB, Commencement Day Address, 6 June 1917, in Annual Report of the
President to the Trustees, Year ending 30 June 1918, CUA.
194. “Report of the [Trustees’] Special Committee . . . to Inquire into the State of
Teaching in the University,” 1 October 1917. Pine to JMC, 1 October 1917.
195. “Columbia Ousts Two Professors, Foes of War Plans,” New York Times, 2
October 1917, pp. 1–2; “Professors Cattell and Dana are Removed from Faculty of
University,” Columbia Spectator, 2 October 1917, pp. 1–2; “Justice is Done,” editorial
note, Columbia Spectator, 2 October 1917, p. 2; “No “Academic Freedom” for Sedition,”
editorial note, New York Evening World, 3 October 1917; “The Expulsions at Columbia,”
editorial note, New York Times, 3 October 1917, p. 12; “Wash Day at Columbia
University,” editorial cartoon, New York Herald, 3 October 1917; “Stamping Out “Sedition”
in the Columbia Faculty,” Current Contents for November, vol. 63, November 1917,
pp. 294–296; “Academic Freedom at Columbia,” undated editorial note, New-York
Tribune; “Columbia Bars Two of Its Faculty,” undated and unidentified clipping, JMC
papers, LoC.
196. Columbia Alumni News 9 (28 September 1917); “Trustees Dismiss Pacifist
Professors,” ibid., 5 October 1917, pp. 31–34; “Columbia Alumni Back Up Trustees,”
New York Times, 28 October 1917, p. 17.
197. Dr. Cattell for Hillquit,” New York Times, 21 October 1917, p. 4.
198. JMC to A. A. Young, 11 November 1917, Harvard College Observatory
collection, Harvard University Archives; JMC to Lovejoy, 14 November 1917, JMC
papers, LoC.
199. “Report of the Committee on Academic Freedom in War Time,” AAUP
Bulletin, vol. 4, nos. 2–3 (February-March 1918), pp. 29–47; on pp. 40–41; “Denounce
Ousting of Prof. Cattell,” New York Evening World, 21 March 1918, p. 24. For a different
reading of this report see Ellen Schrecker, “Academic Freedom: The Historical View,” in
Regulating the Intellectuals: Perspectives of Academic Freedom in the 1980s,” edited by
Craig Kaplan and Schrecker (New York: Praeger, 1983), pp. 25–43.
200. JMC to John M. Coulter, 30 March 1918, Boas papers; JMC, “What the
Trustees of Columbia University Have Done,” 1 October 1918, JMC papers, LoC.