Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing in the Harvard Educational Review's current issue, Dean Henry W. Holmes '08, of the Graduate School of Education, declares that "intolerance, contumely, and disdain expressed against any group, class, race, or creed . . ." as personified by the recent Freshmen vs. American Legion affair, is " . . . an offense against the democratic spirit...
...would seem obvious," he writes, "that no college can be sure that its influence will control the words and actions of a large group of newly admitted students. Admonition at opening meetings and the clearest statement of regulations governing public conduct on the part of students may sometimes be ineffective, especially if the group of incoming boys is large...
College Men Not Privileged Group...
...Students who are guilty of riotous action should have no more protection or leniency than any other group...
Dean Holmes continues, "Idle as it is for those in public authority to classify all college students as 'rich boys' or as a 'privileged group,' there is much to be said for holding college students to a special sense of social responsibility. Continued education ought to lead to a heightened sense of the value of freedom and with it a fuller understanding of the fact that freedom rests on respect for the rights of others and for human dignity...