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...Dean Monro observed that the shelters were only for fallout, and could only be useful if a nuclear attack were "quite some distance" from Boston. Many students have pointed out that shelters at Harvard would be totally useless if a nuclear bomb fell anywhere near Boston...
...should like the opportunity to correct several serious misprints in my letter as published by the CRIMSON (May 17). The first sentence in the third paragraph was almost completely misprinted, and should read as follows: "What is more, Dean Monro and Mr. Harrison implied that in themselves exclusive norms as a basis of association are neither bad nor good." The word "particularly" in the second sentence of the fourth paragraph should read "particularistic"; and in the second sentence of the fifth paragraph the phrase "historical air" should read "historical...
...letter of Mr. William Harrison, editor of the Boston Chronicle (a Negro newspaper), and the statements of Dean Monro strike me as the most useful comments to appear thus far. Dean Monro properly underlined the fact that several student associations based essentially upon exclusive or discriminating norms already exist (e.g., the Newman Club of Catholic students, and the Hillel Society) and intimated the hypocrisy of those who would discard this fact in their haste to judge the Afro-American Association out of bounds...
What is more, Dean Monro and Mr. Harrison implied that in themselves exclusive norms by Jewish-American associations has been fundamentally permissive to progressive and intellectually desirable relationships and patterns of behavior in American society union are neither bad nor good. The test is the consequences of the behavior of association rooted in exclusive forces. Thus one surely need not belabor the point that the use of exclusive norms by white supremacist associations in the American South is explicitly restrictive of the Negro's capacity to complete equally and adequately in society, while the use of exclusive norms by Jewish...
...Monro said he thought the proposed association was similar to groups of Catholic or Jewish students coming together to talk over common problems. "It seems to me to be reaching for controversy to call this one [the African and Afro-American club discriminatory and the Catholic club not," he explained...