Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such hockey officials as New York's John Reed Kirkpatrick and baseball men as Philadelphia's Connie Mack aren't at all worried about television--in fact the think TV is giving sports many new friends. Magazine surveys of both these sports have shown that fans still prefer to see the teams perform in the flesh, because hockey and baseball television is a far cry from the closeup coverage of boxing, wrestling, and football...
...excellence of his play in the goal can be seen from the fact that two scores were made when the Crimson was one man short, and two others were on double rebounds, when there was such a melee in front of the nets that no human being could have known exactly where the puck...
...indeed, Dean Bender's defense of the John Reed Club's right to sponsor a speech at Harvard by Gerhart Eisler was a strong statement of the case for individual liberties and free discussion. But the cold war has not entirely passed the College by, and it has, in fact, helped to shape the limitations on undergraduate activities...
...shield for their activities. Thus The New Student, a magazine published by the Harvard Youth for Democracy, was denied Harvard recognition in January, 1948, on the grounds that 70 percent of its contributions and two-thirds of its circulation came from outside Harvard. This action was taken despite the fact that the magazine was edited entirely by Harvard students. It is unfair to imply that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities refused to recognize the magazine because of its political views, for, as Dean Bender said in reporting the Committee's action, "the best evidence that the Faculty Committee...
...fact that the Committee was not thinking in terms of suppression does not mean that political considerations were not involved. The point is that before the war The New Student would have been chartered without question, whereas after the war it was closely scrutinized and finally refused recognition. The reason for this change is the cold war, which has lead to a determination on the part of the Dean's Office that outside political groups must not use the Harvard name and Harvard organizations as fronts for their activities...