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for appointment at the Bureau of Standards.
He wanted to continue to teach, and after
two years he left the Bureau for a teaching
post in a college where there are no graduate
students, no opportunities for research.

His career has been irremediably
damaged simply because he was (and, I think,
still is) an idealist, a man of high principles.
It is the men and women of high principles
for the most part who have been damaged
by this senseless, vicious attack on science
and scholarship that is being presented
by selfish, rapacious, and opportunitistic
elements in our Nation, with the support
of many unthinking, ignorant, and
credulous citizens.

The University of California
has just been censured by the American
Association of University Professors.
There is some controversty about