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...Houses, and seemed to manage their social affairs under liberal House rules with no evidence of moral deterioration. They were subject to the peculiarly disruptive influences of war-time at an average age even younger than that of the present Yardling crop. If age and experience are any criteria, '51 is at least as qualified for independence as "duration" Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chaperon Shackle | 10/30/1947 | See Source »

...individual college level, how can Harvard best integrate its function as a college with its function as a university? Can the admissions policy be widened to bring in more students from lower economic groups? What should be the criteria for allotting scholarships? To what uses can the House system and Tutorial best be put? Questions of this more specific nature cannot be intelligently answered until the basic aims of college education have been defined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Scene | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

...bigoted, irrelevant, and untrue. Nobody acts. And it was cast by an anonymous prankster with a macabre sense of humor, who must have sniggered as he conjured up Henreid, Hepburn, Daniell, and Bob Walker as grotesque caricatures of Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. By all the orthodox criteria of movie criticism, "Song of Love" is eminently eligible for that glib type of verbal massage so familiar to readers of Wolcott Gibbs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/22/1947 | See Source »

...enough for labor to use the Taft-Hartley vote and other domestic issues as criteria for measuring candidates. Labor cannot safely ignore the relationship of foreign and domestic policy. The men and women and children who are dying in Indonesia or Palestine or Greece are workers and farmers, too. Labor here at home must act or we shall feel the terror common men and women have already felt in so much of the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace On . . . | 10/1/1947 | See Source »

...meeting, that would be a "bad thing." As the W's and du B point out, "the demonstration was incredibly well-organized" and "is it a denial of free speech for the audience to be louder than the man addressing it?" This makes beauty of organization and violence basic criteria in matters of discussion. It puts all opinion not backed by muscles as hard as the heads of those engaging in such discussion at the mercy of hardness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

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