Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community of scholarship or the community at large, a legitimate suspicion of bias is afforded. Within the social sciences in particular, the representation of those dissident opinions reflecting vital intellectual and political currents is the surest guarantee that instructors are being freely and impartially chosen. At Harvard in the past there has been a consistent over-representation of the conservative point of view, and we recommend that this be corrected...
...editorial on March 1 entitled "Out of the Past" the Crimson stated that Conant's American Civilization Plan had three original provisions for the student: (1) the encouragement of self education, (2) the acquisition of a knowledge of "American history in the broadest sense," and (3) the establishment of a bridge uniting the different departments of the university. The editorial advocated the abandonment of the first aim owing to the "transcendent importance" of the other two. We wish to point out that a knowledge of American history and a connecting of the departments are not preclusive of self education...
...have been profoundly disturbed this past fortnight by the pronouncement issued by Professor Bridgman at Harvard relative to the exchange of scientific information with totalitarian countries. . . . My apprehension has developed for two reasons. The first is that this statement may lead the general public to believe that such an attitude has been generally adopted by scientists . . . (and) secondly I feel that this manifesto represents in a way a rising tide of hatred and intolerance...
...poorly attended conferences of the American Civilization groups, sporadic inter-House debates--these were once the only means of integrating ideas drawn from various fields. Then, a group of original men in Lowell House conceived the idea of a "symposium," consisting of student impersonations of great men of the past. In this way it was possible, for example, to portray the repercussions of Darwinian thought on economics, philosophy, literature, and religion of the nineteenth century. Last week a similar project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience discussion of Stalin and Trotsky, and recreated...
...Bruening, former Chancellor of the German Republic (1930-35), has been for the past two academic years lecturer on Government during the first half of the year, and lecturer at Oxford University, England during the second half. While at Harvard he conducted a seminar on "Government Regulation of Industry; Some Post-War Experiments in European Industrial Control...