Word: joint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joint instruction brought this situation to a climax, though it had cropped up before the war. Drama groups, for instance, had often become engaged in tiffs about the use of Radcliffe girls in their plays, though generally it was Radcliffe officials with whom they had to deal. And a short-lived rival of the CRIMSON, The Harvard Journal, which was founded in 1934, had over a dozen Radcliffe members on its staff. It had to bargain with Radcliffe officialdom to get these members, but it never sought official Harvard approval and Harvard officials never interfered. Today, an organization seeking Radcliffe...
...change in attitude has come because of two reactions to joint instruction. The Radcliffe Dean's Office fears that because of joint instruction Radcliffe will lose its separate identity. To prevent this, it wishes to support separate Radcliffe extra-curricular activities. But since it realizes that girls may not stick with Annex groups if they can join corresponding Harvard organizations, it wishes to prevent the Harvard groups from having Radcliffe members. It also fears that Radcliffe members of Harvard organizations will have a second-class citizen status, and will actually be "used" by the Harvard groups...
...draw from (the 30's) most valuable lessons. One of them is that it should be easier to avoid a depression than to cure it. Continuous watching and suitable remedial action is possible and lies within the province of the President's Economic Council and the Joint Committee of Congress. It remains to be seen whether those bodies will act on the basis of short-sighted, political expediency or will address themselves to the serious task assigned to them...
...Radcliffe. The Dean's Office has become extremely worried about Harvard-Radcliffe relations since joint instruction was adopted as an emergency measure during the war and instituted permanently after the war. The Dean's Office is determined to halt what it considers an unfortunate trend towards closer union with Radcliffe, especially in undergraduate activities...
...news had been labeled "Top Secret" but it had leaked out. One leak was Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson, member of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, who unwarily blurted it out on a television program in an argument for tighter security regulations. The news: the Russian atomic bomb contained plutonium...