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Britain's Magna Charta gave the power and prerogatives to the barons, who have held them ever since-the backdoor of the peerage-cum-charmed political circle always being carefully left wide open to "commoners" who have the dough and can read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking...
...triumphal journey much less uproarious than Charles Lindbergh's ticker-tape blizzard (see p. 20). Grover Whalen, resplendent in a flowing stock, received them at his Fair, where they were tootled around in a trackless motor train. Their own Empire's exhibits, including a copy of the Magna Charta, were their chief stops, being formal reasons for their U. S. visit. Artist Frank E. Beresford was on hand with sketch pad to record the event. Columbia University got a crack at them on their way to Hyde Park: Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler received them at the foot...
...recent issue, "Time" treated the Report on Some Problems of Personnel of the "Committee of Eight" as a kind of academic Magna Carta. It seems likely, however, that those close to the situation must infer from the objective significance of President Conant's acceptance of the Report "in principle" as announced in his open letter of May 32 to the Board of Overseers...
...firing of Harvard teachers generally. Two months ago it delivered a 165-page report proposing many reforms. Last week, to the surprise of many, President Conant adopted the report in toto as Harvard's employment policy. The Walsh-Sweezy affair thus produced what may well prove a Magna Charta for U. S. college teachers...
Most ringing manifesto in President Conant's Magna Charta is one on academic freedom. Finding traces of anti-Semitism among the faculty, President Conant and his committee sternly directed that appointments be made "solely on grounds of professional qualifications." Because "a university breeds its own conservatism," they agreed that Harvard should go out of its way to recruit "thoughtful rebels" for its faculty...