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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...persecution. Here no one has been afraid to talk up; the police have not been permitted to keep files on the beliefs of citizens. When the situation has been momentarily altered, as in the period which gave a neighboring city unpleasant notoriety, or when a "Red Hunt" after the First World War put hundreds in chains, it has been to the shame of our nation. The fact that because of the present hysteria it has been possible to give the jailing of the Communists a legal hale is irrelevant. An attack on liberty of expression can come through executive (loyalty...
...dramatic moment for Radcliffe's field hockey squad yesterday afternoon when center halfback Kitty Coolidge steamed up the Quad, scored for the home team, and knocked down Pembroke 2 to 1 to give the Annex its first victory of the season...
...first 15 minute half the game was tied one-all. Pembroke had scored the initial tally. Mary Brandt, left wing for the Annex, evened it up in the last two minutes of the half. Except for some dangerous and messy bunching up, the game was clean fought and fast...
...first glance the recently released University Financial Report might seem a rather comforting document. Not only did Harvard compile a $497,753 surplus in 1948-1949, but it was able to do so while many other colleges and universities were cutting courses and firing teachers in unsuccessful attempts to lick recurring deficits. However, the Report also shows up the big weakness in Harvard's apparently strong financial position--the University's unrestricted reserve is sharply declining, because there are certain sick departments inside the outwardly healthy body...
With the pronounced drop in the University's reserve balances, it becomes painfully evident that these weak departments must either raise more endowment for themselves or else cut their budgets. Should the first alternative fail, Harvard might someday have to decide that such things as "athletics for all," and the third biggest library in the country are shows too big to maintain...