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...Serb Bulger die? And did he die in vain? Most Harvard men celebrate their coming of age with quiet joy; Serb marked his 21st birthday by jumping off the Larz Anderson Bridge. (His body was recovered a week later by the Harvard Student Agencies Dredging Service, and condolences were sent to his grieving parents through the HSA Condolence Agency in a rhyming telegram: "We have bad news for you/Your son's short life is through/ To manhood he had grew/But himself in the river he threw...
According to Rep. William M. Bulger, who introduced one of the proposed acts, "The ideas advanced by the CRIMSON were the crux of the reasons for the defeat of the two bills" He referred to an editorial which appeared in the CRIMSON Monday condemning the bills on the grounds that they were not only "abridgments of academic freedom but violations of the Constitution as well...
...Bulger and Rep. William M. Doherty '50, who introduced the other bill, were apparently instrumental in the defeat of their own legislation. They disclosed that they were sympathetic to the objections that had been raised and Doherty told the committee that "these bills are not the ideal vehicles" for alleviating the problem of "diploma mills" in Massachusetts...
...exactly what could be done to settle the "diploma mill" problem in Massachusetts, neither Doherty nor Bulger were completely certain. "I don't know where we will go from here," one said, "but we are in hopes that some investigation can be made into the practices of fraudulent institutions which are masquerading as schools...
...extend the state's traditional power to grant, but not withdraw, charters to all institutions. The Doherty Bill' would give the state the authority to retract the charter of any educational institution, public or private, whose "curriculum, faculty, and facilities," do not meet with the state's approval. The 'Bulger-Doherty Bill' would enpower the state government to deny an institution the right to grant degrees. Both bills fail to stipulate upon what grounds the state shall disapprove of an institution's faculty or curriculum. One of the bills does not require a hearing at which the accused institution...