Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against these predatory invaders, Harvard's defense must be perfected. Even as Coach Harlow labors on his defense against the Saturday invasions of gridiron teams, so the University must try to out-manoeuvre its opponents, to re-enforce the vulnerable spots, in order that its own progress may be smooth. How this menacing wooden horse is to be out-witted is today the major problem of this institution because the horse represents a composite of all its controversies--both academic and political. It is the purpose of the following editorials to analyze this situation by reviewing its component parts...
...into the press last week: "Neither nakedness nor underwear are authorized Navy outer uniforms at present. The sun's age and man's antiquity being what they are, sunbathing has been practised for some time in the past without a policy. However, the price of clothing, the progress of medical thermo and radio technique, and the existing inclination of mankind toward nakedness and idleness may require the establishment of a policy. Sunbathing, by its very nature, seems to eliminate clothing, at least temporarily....The use of trunks has been established as suitable for public swimming from ships...
When Jewish immigration increased by leaps and bounds, when Jewish leaders proclaimed their expectation of forming a Jewish majority, the Arabs' attitude stiffened. Successive terroristic campaigns were waged, a "holy war" was in progress. Exile, imprisonment, death on the gallows only seemed to increase the crusading ardor of those who believed the Prophet's promise: "Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion and odoriferous as musk and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubims...
...America Now are optimistic about the future. They see science, rapid communication, the "prophylaxis of ideas" working for international good will faster than the forces of reaction can work against it. If, they suggest, reactionaries persist in running counter to the people's deep-seated desire for progress and peace, their newspapers will go unread, their movies will be shunned, their broadcasts unheard, their advertising ignored and, if they resort finally to force, their necks broken. Though pessimists may call this wishful thinking, readers will hope that this optimism is as well founded as was the pessimism of their...
...functions and powers of the various athletic committees and the possibilities of coordinating these bodies; (2) The advisability of Junior Varsity teams in some sports and their connection with the House program; (3) The House program and the possibility of enlarging the Freshman intramural competition; (4) The progress of nature of the athletic endowment plan; (5) The different problems brought up by the changes in facilities of some sports, such as the new Boston Skating Club rink for hockey; (6) The possibility of the further availability of athletic facilities to all students...