Word: dean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because creditors of bankrupt organizations turn to the University for payment, the Dean's Office feels that it must do what it can to prevent student groups from getting into financial difficulties. Hence it has built up a network of financial supervision. For instance, there is a rule, new since the war, that no student group may carry on any activity outside the city limits of Cambridge without Dean's Office permission. And as a check against bankruptcy nearer home, the Dean's Office requires that an annual financial statement be submitted to it by every undergraduate organization...
...Dean's Office Intervention...
...even more interesting case study of how Dean's Office intervention occurs can be found in the field of public relations. When the Hasty Pudding Theatricals was offered the opportunity to appear on a television show, the Dean's Office turned thumbs down. The reason: officials feared the possible unfavorable inferences about Harvard the public might draw as a result of seeing Harvard men playing girls' roles...
This particular incident is only a symptom of the University's current public relations consciousness. This sensitivity to public opinion has intensified the Dean's Office concern over organizational bad debts mentioned above, and over the problems created by post-war political tensions, which were considered yesterday. In each case the fact that people blame Harvard rather than the specific undergraduate group involved has led the Dean's Office to try to prevent ahead of time actions which could lead to an unfavorable public reaction...
Browsing around the Square, with an eye out for anything interesting, may be an easier way out. The Krockodiloes album, a book of Abner Dean or Charles Adams cartoons are pretty good possibilities...