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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the heretofore wide-open Club 100 refused to admit two undergraduates last week, Harvard was faced with its first taste of public racial discrimination within memory. Until last Saturday evening members of the College community were under the impression that decent conduct was the only qualification determining which public places a man could enter and which he could not. The announced stand of the management of the Club 100 now means that the philosophy of public segregation has taken root at one point in Cambridge and must be opposed by students and other members of the community who view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Matter of Decency | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

When the Dartmouth, undergraduate daily at the Hanover college, decided two weeks ago to conduct a survey of Dartmouth courses modelled on the CRIMSON's Confidential Guide, the editors had no idea of the troubles such an innovation would cause in the New Hampshire hills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daily Dartmouth Fights Against Unforeseen Obstacles in Attempt to Issue Course Guide | 3/13/1947 | See Source »

Careful study of your story on Artur Rodzinski & New York Philharmonic [TIME, Feb. 17] confirms my publicly stated belief that concert music must stand on its own feet financially before it can break away from control by interests not directly concerned with artistic integrity of performance. . . . Conductors should conduct-not diplomatize, socialize & partyize for political purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...that the function of the state is to preserve and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms. We believe that the state exists for the benefit of man, not that man exists for the benefit of the state. . . . We believe that each individual must have as much liberty for the conduct of his life as is compatible with the rights of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Double Eagle | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...scholastic work required to achieve the same grade even in courses within the same department, and the interminable difficulties involved in having a grade changed even when the instructor admits the possibility of an error in judgment. There are no standards for grading. Each instructor is left to conduct this course as he sees fit and the department does not intervene unless the grades he awards are completely out of proportion with the distribution that would normally be expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Low Grade System | 3/7/1947 | See Source »

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