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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberal tradition under which Harvard operates, but a matter of sound administrative policy. As President Lowell pointed out in his classic statement on academic freedom, a University cannot regulate its professors' freedom of action without at the same time making itself responsible for everything that professors do. The parallel with student freedoms is striking. If the Dean's Office limits the freedom of student activities in order to solve the four problems outlined in previous editorials in this series, it is, by this very act of limitation, also making itself responsible for what these undergraduate organizations do. This is because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

Almost Nothing Is Parallel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trapezoid Tradition Gets Heave-Ho | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...Trapezoidal means like a trapezoid, or two sides parallel," William V. H. Mason '51, spokesman for the group, said. Actually it's trapeziform, or trapezate, like a trapezium, or no sides parallel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trapezoid Tradition Gets Heave-Ho | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...other words," Mason said, "the whole room is a confuses mess. The only normal thing in it is the ceiling is parallel to the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trapezoid Tradition Gets Heave-Ho | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Room permission at Yale isn't much unlike room permission at Harvard. In fact Yale's closing hours for the Crimson--Eli weekend will run a close parallel to what they would have been if the game were in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Hours Rules Match Harvard's | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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