Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense of the schools. President Conant described to the educators the progress of Harvard's department of education, stating that the University has "set itself squarely against the traditional procedure of granting a professional degree in teaching on the basis of credits in courses...
...departure from its traditionally inactive role as the academic honor society the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday voted to issue a call to all student organizations urging them to join in the formation of a committee to preserve academic freedom...
...Such a committee may well find no cause for action, and if so it will remain inactive. Harvard has a tradition of 300 years of academic freedom behind her, and we feel sure that this will not suffer especially in the present period of wars and crises. We simply think that there should be such a committee standing ready to defend this traction against attack from any source whatever
...very close match the Varsity rifle team emerged victorious yesterday afternoon over the Harvard Employees team...
...because almost everyone of any intelligence at all approves of it, just in the same way he would approve of Christian morality or young love. There may be some yapping minorities that attack it, and some paper advocates who in practice sabotage it, but still 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. And the summons to this constitution of an undergraduate committee to protect it is something else. And the summons to this...