Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only other Crimson wrestler who did not see some action last year is Charlie Keith. He looked promising as a freshman two years ago but threw the javelin in winter track last season...
Unfortunately, in its concern for solving these specific problems, the Dean's Office has failed to evolve any comprehensive philosophy of student rights. Consider the freedoms student groups have lost since before the war. They have lost the freedom to take any action outside Cambridge without Dean's Office permission, the freedom to have Radcliffe girls as members, the freedom to hold rallies in the Yard, the freedom to have a large volume of outside authorship in publications, and numerous other freedoms detailed in previous editorials in this series...
...their organizations, should have the same rights. This is not merely an espousal of the liberal tradition under which Harvard operates, but a matter of sound administrative policy. As President Lowell pointed out in his classic statement on academic freedom, a University cannot regulate its professors' freedom of action without at the same time making itself responsible for everything that professors do. The parallel with student freedoms is striking. If the Dean's Office limits the freedom of student activities in order to solve the four problems outlined in previous editorials in this series, it is, by this very...
...Freedoms of Harvard University students and the groups they form are not alienable. Just as the Harvard Dean's Office has not the right to limit the groups, so national organizations have not the right. Therefore Harvard organizations may not surrender to outside groups their right to freedom of action and must remain antonomous...
...what the Dean's Office thinks is in the best interests of Harvard. The groups do not exist to further the ends of the Dean, they exist to further the ends of their members. So long as they are genuinely Harvard in character, with financial responsibility and freedom of action, there is no reason why they should be the responsibility of, or subject to, the Dean's Office...