Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report, covering the academic year 1947-1948, also discloses that the greatest amount of scholarship aid in College history went to students last year, and holds that the danger of minority "pressure" on the Student Council "is increased by the new (Council) constitution, which makes the Council an almost entirely elected body...
...Council during the year, Bender enumerates certain handicaps "which must be overcome." These include: "complete turnover in membership each year so that mistakes resulting from inexperience are likely to be repeated"; "difficulty in locating the most competent men and persuading them to serve on its committees"; and the "real danger that on controversial issues the Council will succumb to the pressure of vociferous, organized minority groups and fail to give the issues informed and balanced consideration...
...constitution increases this danger, Bender says. He adds that "the Council suffers at present from a considerable degree of indifference, misunderstanding or even open hostility from the student body, so that it does not command all the respect it should have. The policy of the CRIMSON has not been helpful in this respect...
...might be able to eliminate the stealthy creep and the awful eye that characterize so many Harvard examination rooms. A student taking an exam is a pathetic creature. Let him at least feel that if he looks around the room or glances at his watch, he is not in danger of instant indictment by the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...students streamed up to the new library again; they blinked at the lighting and gaped at the pastel-colored books tacks. And Chief Randall and his faithful group of Police retired in a state of quiet but vigilant apprehension, carefully balancing the advantages of the open gates against the danger of possible nefarious incursions into the Yard from without. They have little to fear, however. Their action has gone far to break down the bars to free inquiry at Harvard...