Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change in attitude has come because of two reactions to joint instruction. The Radcliffe Dean's Office fears that because of joint instruction Radcliffe will lose its separate identity. To prevent this, it wishes to support separate Radcliffe extra-curricular activities. But since it realizes that girls may not stick with Annex groups if they can join corresponding Harvard organizations, it wishes to prevent the Harvard groups from having Radcliffe members. It also fears that Radcliffe members of Harvard organizations will have a second-class citizen status, and will actually be "used" by the Harvard groups...
Because creditors of bankrupt organizations turn to the University for payment, the Dean's Office feels that it must do what it can to prevent student groups from getting into financial difficulties. Hence it has built up a network of financial supervision. For instance, there is a rule, new since the war, that no student group may carry on any activity outside the city limits of Cambridge without Dean's Office permission. And as a check against bankruptcy nearer home, the Dean's Office requires that an annual financial statement be submitted to it by every undergraduate organization...
...Dean's Office concern over organizational bad debts mentioned above, and over the problems created by post-war political tensions, which were considered yesterday. In each case the fact that people blame Harvard rather than the specific undergraduate group involved has led the Dean's Office to try to prevent ahead of time actions which could lead to an unfavorable public reaction...
This determination has also led to other limitations on student freedom than those imposed by the New Student decision. At least in part to prevent outside groups from using Harvard as a front, recognized groups must be composed 100 percent of University members and they must be completely autonomous of any outside groups with which they may be affiliated...
...slow down the members of the other team to keep them from catching the jammer; and when the jammer comes around, his buddies get set to block for him. The enemy, of course, does its all to dump the guy, since this is the only way it can prevent being scored on unless time runs out on the jammer...