Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Communist pamphlets were confiscated at Harvard two weeks ago, "The New York Times" stated triumphantly that authorities were beginning a quiet and efficient drive against "red" groups in the University. The story turned out to be almost completely false. Just a few days later when unimpeachable sources reported that a new "ism"-- the Yale Imperialist Association--had long been burrowing beneath the Yale Campus, "The Times" refused to touch it. Only the courageous "Yale News" dared print that undergraduates "tossed off their vodka, smashed their glasses against the wall, and pledged their White Russian honor to the Romanoffs...
...Daily Princetonian and the Princeton Tiger are jointly sponsoring a dance tonight before the Harvard game. Tickets for the dance, which is to be held in the Princeton gymnasium, can be bought in Princeton. A large turnout, with match from here included, is expected by the dance committee...
...second time in a decade, undergraduates will today stage a mass rally for the football team. Exactly one year age the first rally was held following a series of one-sided defeats; on the next day Harvard reached the turning point of the season, defeating Princeton...
...Harvard's great tenure battle is entering a new and more active stage. Yesterday morning the matter was first reported by metropolitan daily newspapers (hitherto Time has been the only publication to touch it), and it is certain that the coming salvos of publicity will force the Administration to play a different sort of game. Moreover, there has been intensified action on a number of University fronts; although none of the recently issued statements alters one whit the positions which have been previously taken...
...demands of Administration opponents. They are not slaves to figures as is the Administration for they realize that figures obliterate all human and educational values. They are not demanding a certain fixed number of additional "frozen" associates. Rather they are asking that the sole criteria for permanence on Harvard's teaching staff be teaching needs and the capabilities of the men involved. Such a request may sound wildly impossible in view of fixed and unalterable budgetary limitations. But the answer--the panacea--is flexibility in the system of appointment to the rank of associate professor...