Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entering civil life to begin anew the fight we began in the Army-the fight for the welfare of Cuba. Our revolution was to benefit Cuba and our aspiration is to carry her to the first place among the democracies of the world. The armed forces are intended to force compliance with the laws. . . . The political parties supporting my candidacy will have no advantages or rights greater than those opposing...
...Civil Aeronautics Authority's flying course at Harvard was a fine idea, and everybody realized, it, including the one hundred and forty students who sought the original fifty vacancies this fall. But thus, far there has been so much red tape and so many delays while the local authorities champ at the bit waiting for marching orders from Washington, that the course has been stumbling along very jerkily indeed. It would be too bad if the excessive centralization of the C. A. A. snarled up the course and made it too disorganized to be worthwhile...
...Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union wishes to congratulate the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on its call for a committee to preserve academic freedom. The need for such a committee grows daily more apparent as college after college after college, with the exceptions of Yale and M. I. T., follows Harvard's rules of etiquette in refusing to allow Earl Browder to speak before student organizations in college buildings. We have, as yet, no assurance that the Harvard authorities are convinced that they "made a silly mistake in the Browder case" nor that they will...
...extravagant terms. But granted that academic freedom is a good thing, the constitution of an undergraduate committee to protect it is something else." Just as lip service to the American desire to keep out of war is no guarantee against our involvement in war, so lip service to civil liberties is no guarantee against their suppression. We feel that there has been sufficient evidence of infringement of academic freedom throughout the nation--witness the Browder case at Harvard and the recent Dies Committee attacks on the American Student Union--to make the formation of such a committee...
...taking this step to preserve the values of the academic world, Phi Beta Kappa has demonstrated that its position in that world is well deserved. Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union...