Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results of the poll on social-economic questions devised by the Brown Herald which we published today show an amusing attitude at Yale toward these fundamental issues. If the 700 odd ballots are an accurate cross section of public opinions, as they certainly should be, it seems that Yale is opposed to greater control by the government of the nation's economic forces...
...Council's attempts to divert attention from the abnormal tax rate and the value of the University property should be studied, and the passing (it is hoped) of the current red baiting. Tact must be shown by Harvard to soothe the city, but the problem is one of public relations more than of class antagonism...
Every person interested in the public relations of the University should read the article. First it examines the old red herrings that the city suffers financial loss from Harvard, and dismisses them in a cloud of fact. It lists all the services and welfare functions the college performs for the community, many of which are not generally known. What it discovers is that "the friction between the University and the city has been caused by the fact that the two feel no common interest and are suspicious and ignorant of each other." The base of this feeling is the contrast...
...most valuable aspect of this field will probably be its influence on men who plan to go into business or public life. Architectural Science will, Dean Hudnut hopes, teach the importance of city planning, organization of public spaces, and all other expedients which will alleviate the deplorable conditions existing today. The very fact that the field will not take regional planning or housing in their technical contexts but only in their broadest implications increases its value...
Thirty-nine Harvard science professors, assistant professors and instructors, were among the 1,284 American scientists who signed a manifesto made public yesterday which declared that the defence of democracy is the sole means of preserving intellectual freedom and insuring scientific progress...