LWB Exclusive: An e-mail correspondent uncovers just how far back Yale’s resistance to the right of its graduate students to organize goes:

so i’m working on this paper about this guy jerome davis, a div school professor fired in 1936, allegedly for being a left- radical. davis was also the president of the local american federation of teachers local. the aaup investigated, and this was the statement (almost in its entirety) from President James Rowland Angell (who I’m assuming must have some relation to another asshole Rowland) to their investigatory body on January 8, 1937:

“Academic freedom is in fact threatened far more by the proposed unionization of teachers in the American Federation of Teachers and by that kind of pressure than it has ever been at Yale, or can conceivably become during the present generation.”

the more things change…