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Probably the most interesting question the Survey has thus far put to students is the "ism" problem. On this issue fifty-six per cent voted a preference for Communism over Fascism. The result of this poll may have tremendous repercussions. For, if the new generation maintains its bias toward the extreme. Left, red-baiting will rapidly lose its place as the premier American political sport. Instead of trying to locate the root of all evil in Moscow, the Dies Committees of the future will have to orient their accusing fingers to Berlin or Rome. The "red menace" will become...
Hence, in practice, a democratic set-up promises the greater good. Such a system in each department, operating through the proposed fact-finding committees, forestalls to a great extent personal bias and prejudice. It provides a much fairer and more competent method of ascertaining the abilities of each candidate, both in research and teaching. By its very nature, it makes for strength to throw off the yoke of the Corporation. The reaction of the official faculty committee now investigating tenure to this document of educational democracy should be of the utmost interest...
...where an entire department, not to say a faculty, of a professedly liberal institution, exhibits a homogeneity of sentiment grossly unrepresentative of the division of opinion in the community of scholarship or the community at large, a legitimate suspicion of bias is afforded. Within the social sciences in particular, the representation of those dissident opinions reflecting vital intellectual and political currents is the surest guarantee that instructors are being freely and impartially chosen. At Harvard in the past there has been a consistent over-representation of the conservative point of view, and we recommend that this be corrected...
...efforts turn to buffoonery, as in the distasteful handling of the recent Jewish-refugees-to-Palestine drive. Constructive political theory seems to be wanting in the organization and while youth may excuse the same vice which hampers their Republican fathers, there is not even evidence of a vigorous class bias to take the place of thought...
...schoolboy of 14 now knows, Macaulay's genius was considerably overrated. His phenomenal, encyclopedic memory was too often a substitute for thinking. His wit borrowed its main punch from his universal spleen and political bias. (Said Macaulay, who loved only his sisters: "There are not ten people in the world whose deaths would spoil my dinner.") Most of the writers and poets he demolished-Byron, Shelley, Keats, Thackeray, Gibbon,. Wordsworth, Tom Paine, Herman Melville, to name only a few- have long survived him. And his History, while still exciting for its colorful narrative, is not noted for its accuracy...