Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of editorials discussing Dean's Office and Council proposals for rules relating to undergraduate activities. Yesterday's editorial described the tremendous increase that has taken place since the thirties in Dean's Office regulation of student activities and found four major causes for this increase: 1) the cold war and consequent political tensions, 2) growing concern about organizational bad debts, 3) Increased sensitiveness about public relations, 4) a trend towards closer Harvard-Radcliffe relations which the Dean's Office considers extremely unfortunate. Today's editorial discusses the cold war and rules...
This maelstrom of hysteria has never caught up the Dean's Office, and, indeed, Dean Bender's defense of the John Reed Club's right to sponsor a speech at Harvard by Gerhart Eisler was a strong statement of the case for individual liberties and free discussion. But the cold war has not entirely passed the College by, and it has, in fact, helped to shape the limitations on undergraduate activities...
...thinking in terms of suppression does not mean that political considerations were not involved. The point is that before the war The New Student would have been chartered without question, whereas after the war it was closely scrutinized and finally refused recognition. The reason for this change is the cold war, which has lead to a determination on the part of the Dean's Office that outside political groups must not use the Harvard name and Harvard organizations as fronts for their activities...
...cold war. Political tensions since the war are, in the eyes of the Dean's Office, much greater than before the war. The Dean's Office feels that political groups of which it disapproves will use the Harvard name as a shield. Hence the Dean's Office wants to make it much tougher for groups to be chartered or to put out publications...
...recognizing Germany's importance in the "cold war," the U.S. and England must learn what the French know: it is terribly dangerous to strengthen Germany without knowing how that strength will be used. This consideration and no other must be first guide for future policy...