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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rally will be broadcast from coast-to-coast over N.B.C.'s Blue Network from 10:30 to 11 o'clock. John Kieran, noted sports editor of the New York Times, will be master of ceremonies. The program will feature musical selections by the bands of both Universities, and the members of the clubs will sing their respective alma maters...
...Star-Spangled Banner. The two incidents were widely separated in space and degree; yet both are part of a pattern of hysteria being woven around us. The vigilante attack on a minority speaker is not without precedent in Detroit; Harvard's ban on a minority speaker is a new departure in Cambridge. But the most startling aspect of Harvard's decision is the frailty of its excuse. Browder has been indicted but has not been convicted, and it is still American doctrine that a man is innocent until proved guilty. The reverse assumption is as alien to basic American concepts...
...loaning and borrowing professorships among departments--a substitute for the President's Fund--is being worked out. These two plans supply ample basis for a great deal of flexibility in Harvard's promotion scheme. It now remains to be seen, however, to what use the Administration will put its new weapons. The true test will be the results of the appointment negotiations which are now taking place between individual departments and the Administration...
...first reasonable use of the new-found flexibility would be the reappointment of a few of the assistant professors who were officially handed their walking papers last spring. The double-edged case for them has often been stated: that they have proven their abilities as teachers and scholars, and that they are urgently needed by their departments at the present time. In the final analysis, flexibility should exist for no other reason than to provide a solution when one or both of these two situations exist. Whether or not the Administration will admit this remains to be seen...
...muddy field would raise havoc with complicated Harvard offensive operations, but Yale passing would obviously suffer considerably. In rain or snow, the Harlowmen should pack just a bit too much running punch for the New Haven Invaders...