Word: freedoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paying for the heavy burdens of wars, depressions, and welfare services, our taxes have been raised so high that they are constituting in themselves an influence which leads away from freedom and towards socialism. They restrict the ability of the citizen to spend as he pleases. Instead they channel a considerable part of his earnings into general welfare which he may or may not desire. Worse than this in the long run is the deadening hand of taxes on new enterprises and undertakings and the comparative strength they also give to old established businesses. Freedom to start something now with...
International tensions since the war have brought under scrutiny freedoms that went unquestioned during the thirties. People now ask how much freedom should be permitted those whom they believe seek to destroy freedom, a questioning which has on occasion caused mass hysteria and endangered individual rights...
This determination has also led to other limitations on student freedom than those imposed by the New Student decision. At least in part to prevent outside groups from using Harvard as a front, recognized groups must be composed 100 percent of University members and they must be completely autonomous of any outside groups with which they may be affiliated...
Another instance of limitation of student freedom because of cold war tensions can be found in the case of political rallies. Before the war it was very easy for a Harvard group to hold a rally, and right in the Yard if it wished. Today the Yard is out of bounds for rallies, and considerable Dean's Office and Student Council red tape must be sliced through to hold a rally anywhere else on Harvard property. Part of the Dean's objection to use of the Yard comes from fear of disturbing classes, but this cannot be a serious objection...
...undergraduate organizations should have the greatest freedom within broadest limits," Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 told the Student Council last night in a discussion of the Council's new revision of the Deans' office rules for student groups...