Word: group
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council also decided to sponsor a poll of the undergraduates today to see how many want an outdoor ice rink on Soldiers Field, and how many would be willing to join an ice skating club to help support it. Robert J. Stern '50 said that an outside group might donate the necessary $2,000 for original construction of the rink during Christmas vacation, and the Athletic Association would maintain the structure...
During the last war, from 1942 to 1946, the building was used by the School for Overseas Administration, which trained men in foreign languages (mostly Chinese and Japanese). It also housed a group of chaplains. After the war, Cannon House served briefly as a fraternity house and then as an International House for foreign students before they were admitted to the regular undergraduate dormitories...
...recent meetings, the Social Relations Society gave a demonstration of a new kind of group psychotherapy. It is called "Psychodramas," and its inventor, J. L. Moreno, was on hand to run the show. The new yellow, red, and green psychotheater on Mt. Auburn street was filled to standing-room-only for the occasion...
This is not true at Harvard. Only about 15 percent of the College belongs to organizations which worry about discriminatory "qualifications" for admission; only one group has a discriminatory charter. These groups are purely social clubs; their function is severely limited by University Hall restrictions requiring students to pay for room and board in College buildings...
...Council regulation forbidding discrimination would state in legal terms what these groups already know, the discrimination is becoming an unpopular standard for picking your associates. It would probably make the bias of one group tacit rather that overt. That is all. And the measure would be an-other restriction on the freedom of undergraduate groups. This one abridgement of freedom would imply the Council's right to make any such abridgements, to put restrictions on what an organization can do, or what it can say, or where it can meet. A rule forbidding discrimination, which might be a good rule...