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Publications using the Harvard name in their titles must meet more requirements for approval than those which omit "Harvard." However, the report states that the basic criterion for approval of a publication is that "it must be a Harvard student enterprise...
...criticism of religion must be outlawed as such . . . has no justification ... If the suppression of the Nation ... is allowed to stand . . . the consequences to the schools, to the press, and to the vitality of American freedom may well be very serious indeed. Newspapers and periodicals will be obliged to omit news and comment which any group in any denomination, Catholic or other, regards as objectionable or run the risk of being suppressed in the public schools...
Most colleges piously deny that they set racial or religious quotas-but just the same, many ask their applicants to specify their race and religion. This week President Mildred McAfee Horton announced that Wellesley College would henceforth omit these questions on its application forms-to free Wellesley from "even the appearance of unfair discrimination...
...Walk" is 96 pages long, so I cannot comment on all the various contributions, but must omit some that I liked, such as "Canto 6, Dante's Purgatorio" by Theodore Spencer, and some that I did not like at all, such as "Oono Dos Treys" by Bert Morton in order to get to the poetry, much of which is remarkably good. ("Oono Dos Treys," I should explain, is a labored story about a foetus that refuses to be born, but talks in erudite English inside the mother, an idea whose grotesque charm wears off rapidly after the first few scholarly...
Physiologists Emmelin & Feldberg, who describe the nettle as "one of nature's meanest masterpieces" [TIME, Dec. 29], omit to mention one curious characteristic of this labora-torial vegetable: it only stings if touched lightly. Remember...