Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arts in today's United States are shackled to a financial oligarchy by their dependence on private patronage. Plays must have their gag lines, books their seductions, and opera its Diamond Horseshoe, all to entice the sacred dollars out of those few well-filled pocket-books. For without those dollars, the Arts cannot live. Partly to break those shackles which link the Arts so irretrievably with private enterprise, the Administration at Washington inaugurated the Federal Arts projects. By subsidizing these projects, the Government has tried to life the Arts above the dictates and limits of a limited public and pass...
...scholarship holders, it has decreed that no students shall be employed by the Massachusetts Avenue schools. This rule will be a vital link in Harvard's chain of action. In itself, it will strike a heavy blow at the tutoring bureaus--just how stunning the proprietors alone know. It must be enforced; and a cooperative attitude from the students, together with ruthlessness on the part of University officials are capable of doing this...
...greatest significance of yesterday's statement is the fact that the mountain has begun to move. These actions alone are guerilla tactics; they harry but do not destroy. Commercialized tutoring will not quit Harvard because of such negative steps. There has been a beginning only; there must be a great deal more to follow...
Coupled with competition, there must be direct pressure on the commercial schools. Direct pressure is the only insurance of their passing; they will not simply atrophy because of competition. It can take a variety of forms: law-suits, contact with parents and prep schools, efforts to have all other student publications cease advertising, steps to make class lists and especially lists of freshmen inaccessible. All of these must be pursued. As a final trump, there is the possibility of direct pressure on the students themselves to stop tutoring in the Square...
Above all, the University must recognize the importance of what it is attempting. This is a death-struggle. Harvard has staked her reputation and soundness against the existence of the cram parlors. If they emerge from it they will be all the stronger, and perhaps impregnable for the future. The drive to meet their challenge must be vigorous and sustained...