Two members of Columbia University Faculty – Professor James McKeen Cartell of the Department of Psychology and Assistant Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana of the Department of English and Comparative Literature – were ousted from the university at a meeting of the Trustees yesterday afternoon upon charges that they had disseminated doctrines tending to encourage a spirit of disloyalty to the Government of the United States.
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The New York Times (2 October 1917). Related archival materials: http://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/NS03…