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Harvard has taken great pride in its reputation as a liberal and democratic institution. If this pride is not to turn to hypocrisy, Harvard must not submit to the increasing pressures of the cold war hysteria and conform to all the anti-democratic criteria which would be necessary to prove to the McCarthys and Mundts that it isn't a Communist school. If Harvard is to maintain its stand on democracy, one of the first important steps is the realization that full equality between men and women is an essential principle of democracy. The fact that Radcliffe has no faculty...
...must accept these people, and it is becoming increasingly apparent that we must, then we might at least expect them to conform to standards of dress and appearance which have thus far set us aside from the type of college student current in the ads of the Coca-Cola Company. To the casual observer, the Yard must appear only slightly different from the campus of the midwestern coeducational university where faddists with their beanies, blue jeans, and dangling shirt tails rule...
...wearing of the beanie points up an essential defect in the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship. They must conform to Harvard standards in matters intellectual, but they are completely beyond our control in other matters. The day is not far off when we shall be beset by the other corrolaries of coeducation. Pinning, "drug store society," and mooney couples in strange dress will...
...York, the protests began to mount. In a sharp wire to CBS, testy Walter Damm, manager of the Milwaukee Journal's station WTMJ-TV, said: "Godfrey's remarks . . . were the most obnoxious and filthy ever inflicted on a television audience . . . Unless [his] remarks and gestures conform to decency in the future, the Journal Co. will refuse to carry him further." Variety headlined, CBS OUT ON A GODFREY LIMB, and warned that industry-wide censorship might result. Urging Godfrey to "pipe down a little," New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby wrote: "I hate to align myself with...
...choral singing in the huge Handel Festival of 1791, and returned to Vienna feeling liberated from the classical form he himself had done so much to develop. When he got around to composing this work, seven years later, he followed his predecessor Handel's example, wrote to conform more to a text (a theme from Milton's Paradise Lost) than to classical form. In so doing, he wrote music that hints at many a thing to come-the later Beethoven, even early Wagner. Performance and recording: good...