Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Properly conceived and properly directed, this new committee may assume the significance of a charter of rights for the undergraduate: a guarantee that the students' voice shall be heard on important issues of University policy. The Council evidently has started out with this admirable purpose; the idea was that "protest" groups, springing up whenever the tenure of a valued teacher is threatened, are a haphazard method at best. However healthy it is that they should arise, their effectiveness is sure to be hurt because they are locking the stable door after the horse, in the form of a brilliant educator...
...emphasized that the committee is not a "protest group" on the issue of the University's proposed ten per cant budget reduction, but that it will have the broader function of informing the heads of each department as to student opinion on the value of specific courses, instructors, and methods, and may from time to time recommend changes in the curriculum...
...Bill, Willkie broadcast a message to the German people (TIME, Feb. 17) affirming his opposition to everything that Hitler stands for. Said he: "I am of pure German descent. My family name is not Willkie but Willicke. My grandparents left Germany 90 years ago, and they did this in protest against tyranny, and in order to live as free people." When Nazis heard that, their patience, never very durable, wore thin and snapped...
Robert Seldman '41 will explain the grounds for the protest in a preliminary report, and Lawrence Lader '41 will propose various solutions of the problem, which will include an attempt to set up a permanent undergraduate council on History and Lit to keep the Faculty in touch with concentrators' opinions...
After the meeting, these two reports will be enlarged and presented to President Conant on his return from Europe. Meanwhile, permanent officers will be elected to the council, and protest petitions will be circulated in Eliot and Leverett Houses, where the tutors reside...