Word: mayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short rest, and you may be advised to "take 20, easy," which means over a quarter-mile at blotter than hair-speed. Then, gracious Mr. Ulen, in his most condescending manner, will "permit" you to swim ton laps with your feet strapped-- to build up the arms. The first two always feel grand. Sprint drill may follow, which means several full speed 25's or 50's, and after that Half sometimes advises ten more "easy" to loosen you up again. The practice is concluded by some of the boys kicking a few laps and others just jumping...
...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
...surprising that Phi Beta Kappa is a champion of academic freedom, 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...
Consequently, once the proposed committee had been formed it would either have to retire to inactivity immediately or unearth some issues on which to go to work. Quite conceivably, a situation may explode at Harvard where fundamental principles of academic freedom are actually flouted. But there is time enough when that moment comes to form the necessary committee to deal with the matter...
...second question is whether Phi Beta Kappa should god-father the proposition. No one can possibly object that this organization is coming to life, for the intellectual aristocracy sits in a coign of great vantage. But come what may, Phi Beta Kappa should exist as a completely nonpartisan intellectual organization. Whatever the proposed committee may be in theory, by fact and by reputation it will inevitably assume a color and a partisan nature. The issues dealt with will inevitably revolve in political and ethical spheres which should be strange...