Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General public opinion notwithstanding, most students here are quite normal. But the staff of the Grant Study takes exception to the old saw that normal people are the most uninteresting of the lot. In a small brick building on Holyoke Street, next to the Hygiene Department, the Study has been trying "to understand better the adjustment of healthy college people" for the past 11 years...
...Public Relations. The University, and especially the Dean's Office, is considerably more sensitive to what the general public thinks about Harvard than it used to be. The Dean's Office doesn't want undergraduate groups bearing the Harvard name to do things that will, in its opinion, cause an unfavorable public relation reaction against Harvard...
...spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were more violent than the men. State Representative William A. Glynn (D--Boston) must have come away with the same opinion, because he filed a bill the other day seeking to bar women from wrestling matches and roller derbies, claiming these events are too rough for feminine participants. The girls can't get tants by sight and/or name as he watches the goings-on on TV. He is familiar with...
Freedom of speech and press, and a fortiori, of thought and opinion, are guaranteed to all Americans by the First Amendment. The only limitation placed upon this freedom is the "clear and present danger" doctrine first enunciated by Justice Holmes in Shenck v. U. S., 249 Us 47 (1919). It is important to note that this doctrine applies when freedom of speech is abused to the point of a person screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre when he knows that no danger of fire exists. It is quite a different matter to apply this limiting doctrine to the realm...
There are a sufficient number of criminal statutes on the books to convict those who are guilty of subversive activity; instead of loyalty oaths, to muzzle the growth and exchange of free opinion, what is needed is an understanding that those who foster and use undemocratic instruments such as loyalty oaths also foster an undemocratic society. Unless the use of such oaths and other similar practices are discontinued, freedom of thought and expression will be completely effacted, and Navy-sponsored snoopers and back fence peeping-toms will not be limited to the Harvard campus. Irwin Gostin...