Word: badness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallach calls Montaigne 'the great skeptic.' A skeptic of any kind is bad enough. A great skeptic is the last person I would go to on a question of such great importance-my eternal salvation...
There are two sophomores in Jordan's lineup today-Chip Carter and Al Sawyer-probably the most capable of last year's freshmen. Carter is filling in for Roger Wach, bothered by a bad knee, at 136. Sawyer captained the freshmen last winter and will face MIT captain Wilbur Haggerty at 155 today...
...past four editorials in this series it has been shown how the rules of the Dean's Office for regulating student activities have been formulated to meet certain problems which have annoyed or embarrassed the Dean's Office. These problems have been: 1) post-war political tensions, 2) bad debts, 3) increased concern for public relations, and 4) Radcliffe-Harvard relations...
Thus the Dean's Office, because of its fear of merger of Harvard-Radcliffe student activities, has limited the students' own freedom of decision on the problem. Its pattern of action is identical to that shown by its reactions to the problem of post-war political tensions, bad debts, and public relations...
This particular incident is only a symptom of the University's current public relations consciousness. This sensitivity to public opinion has intensified the Dean's Office concern over organizational bad debts mentioned above, and over the problems created by post-war political tensions, which were considered yesterday. In each case the fact that people blame Harvard rather than the specific undergraduate group involved has led the Dean's Office to try to prevent ahead of time actions which could lead to an unfavorable public reaction...