Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union wishes to congratulate the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on its call for a committee to preserve academic freedom. The need for such a committee grows daily more apparent as college after college after college, with the exceptions of Yale and M. I. T., follows Harvard's rules of etiquette in refusing to allow Earl Browder to speak before student organizations in college buildings. We have, as yet, no assurance that the Harvard authorities are convinced that they "made a silly mistake in the Browder case" nor that they will...
...CRIMSON's editorial of December 9 states that "the great majority of people and certainly the great majority of Harvard students would condone academic freedom in extravagant terms. But granted that academic freedom is a good thing, the constitution of an undergraduate committee to protect it is something else." Just as lip service to the American desire to keep out of war is no guarantee against our involvement in war, so lip service to civil liberties is no guarantee against their suppression. We feel that there has been sufficient evidence of infringement of academic freedom throughout the nation--witness...
...taking this step to preserve the values of the academic world, Phi Beta Kappa has demonstrated that its position in that world is well deserved. Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union...
...Symon's privileges will be that of dining each year with the thirty-eight previous recipients of the prize at a gathering which includes the members of the Wendell family and the President of Harvard...
...Judgment Time. And so--particularly among Freshmen--there are beginning to appear the usual cases of pre-exam intellectual indigestion. Sometimes this is the result of a real hazy indetermination as to what the first semester was all about; among Freshmen more often it is a psychopathic feat that Harvard is, after all, a very hard place, too hard to get through without special medicine...