Word: granting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Friday the Hygiene Building witnessed an influx of famous medical men meeting to discuss the Grant Study. This psychological, biological, and sociological survey has been in progress for over a year in an attempt to discover the motivating forces of a cross-section of normal college students. Although the Study has been pooh-poohed by students, questioned by some of the faculty, the verdict of the distinguished assembly gave professional blessing...
...many years now there has been a definite trend towards personalizing Harvard education, a trend in which the Grant Study is the latest example. The tutorial system, the House Plan, the Board of Freshman Advisers are all part of this trend. But these examples are attempts to adapt the individual more nearly to the requirements of a Harvard education. With the advent of the Grant Study, a conscious attempt is being made for the first time in its history to adapt Harvard education to the undergraduate...
...best interests. It is all very well to project an investigation which will explore the general question of the use of Harvard buildings by non-official organizations. But there are no logical grounds, dreamed or spoken, for prefacing this investigation by a move such as the refusal to grant to the Communist leader the right to appear here...
...Society declared that the Corporation's decision to refer the matter to a committee is "a flimsy device to avoid the well-deserved wrath of the students who have demanded that the University grant the John Reed Society a hall in which to present Earl Browder...
...Greene must certainly be surprised by the repercussions attending his refusal to grant a hall for a Browder meeting--from a "question of taste" it has become a "question of civil liberties." If the purpose of his action was not to deny free speech, it has, nevertheless, that very function, and in the present time when there is a general hounding of unorthodox, political groups, anything which might signify a restriction of free speech, a surrender to Mr. Dies' blackmailing, is to be carefully avoided. Mr. Greene's legitimate protest to the "New York Times" on its handling...