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Perhaps the most significant questions concerning religion, however, concern its relation to the University intellectually. Many have advocated that religion, an unscientific--often superstitious institution which has divided the nation into sects, and has as often done harm as good has no place in academic life. They have charged that its sectarianism and the personal commitment of those who teach it would tend to violate the very principles of academic freedom and inquiry on which the University stakes so much importance. No matter where religion would be taught, it would tend to force itself upon students...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Religion at Harvard: To Teach or Preach? | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

Television is an enigmatic sort of modern blessing. Like the atom and the automatic dishwasher, it has to be used carefully, or else it may do more harm than good. The University is wise in eyeing it with cautious suspicion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grounded Aerial | 4/16/1954 | See Source »

Last week Hall said: "McCarthy has done more harm than good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Low Point for Joe | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...greater than the good victory could do was the harm that defeat would wreak on the French spirit. Most politicians have already succumbed to the belief that the Indo-China war cannot be won on the field, that it must be ended by negotiation. The French feel trapped in a "heads-you-win, tails-we-lose" position. If Dienbienphu stands fast (as seemed highly possible this week), the price of victory would likely strengthen the voices of those who believe that the Indo-China war costs more than it is worth. Should the fortress fall, there would almost certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Waiting for Dienbienphu | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Kendal be directed to see that the College Engine and Bucketts be immediately repaired and plac'd in Holden Chapel." Undergraduate Kendal set to work and organized the Engine Society "for exercising the Engine." And for over forty years, the Engine Society watched all major blazes, invariably doing more harm than good...

Author: By John S. Weltner, | Title: All-Purpose Chapel | 3/24/1954 | See Source »

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