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...This week he told Congress that any such law would be of no help, could hinder the FBI, and would raise constitutional issues...
...illogical for a country that prizes education enough to offer college students draft deferments to turn about and hinder their attempts at partial self-support. President Eisenhower seems to agree. He has proposed that a student be considered a legitimate tax exemption regardless of the size of his own income, providing that be actually receives support from home. Naturally, he would continue to pay a tax on carnings above...
...current hysteria through victimizing people who hol unpopular beliefs. To give him more names is merely to provide him with more fuel and to aid him in destroying the lives of men and families. The fact that those named would protest their innocence of criminal activity would not hinder McCarthy; his genius lies in distortion and innuendo. Further-more, to the unreasoning public Communism and treason are one; admission of the former is proof of the latter. Every new name is a headline for McCarthy; every new admission a faggot for hysteria. Franklin V. Walker Tutor in Economics
...other undergraduate groups. And no provision was made for coping with inevitable problems of political partisanship which a meeting of groups so diverse as the Liberal Union and the Young Republicans would produce. As a result, there were charges and counter-charges which could only discredit the Council and hinder the cause of academic freedom. Were the ruckus stirred by a meeting on parietal rules, it would be cause enough for dismay. But on issue like the Fifth Amendment and the loyalty of Harvard teachers, such bungling can be disastrous...
...consulting room...For the patient, the disease consists of the discomforts which she experiences in her own body. To the doctor, these are important only in so far as they support his diagnosis. He regards them as symptoms if he can use them, and as hallucinations if they hinder...