Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, in its concern for solving these specific problems, the Dean's Office has failed to evolve any comprehensive philosophy of student rights. Consider the freedoms student groups have lost since before the war. They have lost the freedom to take any action outside Cambridge without Dean's Office permission, the freedom to have Radcliffe girls as members, the freedom to hold rallies in the Yard, the freedom to have a large volume of outside authorship in publications, and numerous other freedoms detailed in previous editorials in this series...
Thus the Dean's Office, because of its fear of merger of Harvard-Radcliffe student activities, has limited the students' own freedom of decision on the problem. Its pattern of action is identical to that shown by its reactions to the problem of post-war political tensions, bad debts, and public relations...
...conclusion that within the limits of our resources and abilities, we will oppose the expansion of Communism in the world, will be on the aggressive instead of on the defensive, and will cooperate with other nations which have the same ends to protect--the material prosperity and the freedom of their citizens...
Unfortunately, the protection of the good name of the University is being achieved at the expense of the freedom of action of student groups...
Since the U.S. cannot dodge foreign responsibilities, Flanders added, its objective should be the "material prosperity of the American citizen and the preservation of his freedom." This isn't really selfish, he said, because the United States could do little for others in a depression...