Word: paternalisme
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The Student Council backed down Monday on about half of its objections to Associate Dean Watson's little green booklet of Rules for Undergraduate Organizations. Last year's council, which formulated these objections, had scrupulously studied the relationship between student groups and the deans and had come to the obvious...
And one can hope that this council will have matured enough by September to resume the fight against paternalism, and perhaps to win.
As is well known, Harvard's social facilities, especially for entertaining women guests, are inadequate. That does not mean we should accept solutions which other colleges have found suitable. Many depend on a fraternity system, which is foreign to Harvard. Yale emphasizes a kind of paternalism, working through the close...
"If a guy needs to learn how to hold his liquor," the master of Silliman College, Theodore M. Greene, said, "he might as well o it under home conditions. There's no use forcing him to go to a West Haven bar ... they've got to go awfully wild before...
Paternalism is a smear word. Harvard doesn't pat its students on the head, doesn't outfit their play pens, doesn't sit down with them for fatherly advice. But a Yale student might mix an incisive metaphor and say this; in trying to avoid paternalism, Harvard leans over backwards...