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Dean Watson's attempt to remove Mary Gillmor from the presidency of the Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club was ill-conceived, ill-considered, and illogical. It was also inexcusable...
...asking Miss Gillmor, a special student, to step down, Watson told her that only students in the College can be officers of undergraduate organizations. But, in fact, Miss Gillmor has every right to her office since the Regulations for Undergraduate Organizations state only that "a majority of the members and a majority of the officers must be undergraduates." Watson's arbitrary misrepresentation was conduct unbefitting a Harvard dean...
...apparently personal nature of his harassment is disquieting even to those for whom in principle it does not seem entirely unreasonable. He was evidently not acting according to rules set up by a faculty committee but attempted to depose Miss Gillmor ad hoc on the basis of a projected change in rules: and the whole tone of his treatment of her, up to and including his dismissal of her protests as mere publicity-seeking, raises the most disturbing suspicions. Perhaps such treatment of a duly elected officer of a university organization deserves a certain amount of publicity. David Wade Chambers...
Dean Watson said in reply that Miss Gillmor was "violating the spirit and the purpose of undergraduate organizations," although he conceded that nothing in the rules specifically prohibited her from being president of the club...
Watson rejected Miss Gillmor's assertion that he was harassing the Socialist Club, and said that she was "just after some free publicity. It would be the same thing if she were a member of the Radcliffe Choral Society." He noted that any change in rules would not apply...