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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is far more involved here than being a well informed voter," President Conant continued, "more even than taking part in local politics or in the work of philanthropic organizations,--excellent and important as such activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baccalaureate Launches Graduation | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...expect reasonable men to think of participation in open and legal meetings on public subjects as the equivalent of secret plotting to commit crime, merely because Communists or "fellow travelers" take part in such meetings. On this line of reasoning, literally thousands of reputable citizens would have offended. By no possibility could Harvard adopt a view which, to put it mildly, is so extreme. To do so would, I believe, call for conclusions which offend common sense and for efforts at repression that would be out of place anywhere in our country and are inconceivable at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark Statements | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...award was accompanied by a citation which read in part "to one who won a place of great prominence in the sciences; an outstanding and distinguished scientist who has successfully combined the activities of home and career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Group Gives Medal to Astronomer | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Paragraph 8: Mr. Hoover's first statement here was neither mentioned nor implied in either of the articles. As for his second statement, even if Mr. Hoover could disprove any part of the two articles, the prevalent fear at Yale would still indicate that the FBI is influencing academic and political activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Absolutely Super. In Orwell's 1984, Britain is no longer Britain. It is merely part of the superstate Oceania (the British Isles and Atlantic Islands, North and South America, southern Africa, Australasia). From 1960 on, Oceania has been ceaselessly at war, sometimes as ally and sometimes as foe, with Eurasia or Eastasia, the only other existing powers. All three of these monolithic superstates have the atom bomb; none ever uses it because continuous, wasteful, indecisive warfare has become economically essential-"to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Rainbow Ends | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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