Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, the rule invoked by the Corporation last year--that "no athletic team" shall "take part in any game where the purpose is purely the earning of money . . ."--was irrelevant. Unlike football or tennis, the Rugby Club depends on the University for nothing save playing fields, locker space, and old shors. Consequently, it is no more an athletic team than the Harvard Liberal Union...
...have, then, a tableau which includes one rule misapplied, one rule broken with official sanction, and a quarrel between Governing Board and Dean's Office on definitions. Added to this are the Saturday afternoon sportscasts of the football games, sponsored by the Atlantic Oil Company. At best, this is a tableau riddled with inconsistencies. At worst, it is a perversion of the University's dubious Good Name Policy, a perversion which exalts the popular Band and football team over lesser known groups solely on the basis of which will glorify Harvard's name the most...
Whatever this tableau's specific origins, the basic trouble is the Corporation's rule forbidding groups that grace their name with Harvard to perform on commercially sponsored shows. Why the administration maintains this rule is still none too clear, except that it obviously involves fear for Harvard's reputation. Perhaps the Corporation is afraid that people will suspect it of selling the use of Harvard to purveyors of soap and toothpaste. Why anyone, however, should confuse a student group's appearance on radio with official endorsement of its sponsor any more than he confuses football sportscasts with official endorsement...
Perhaps, however, the University imposes this rule thinking that mere association with common commercial pursuits would automatically besmirch the Good Name. Though better founded, this is an even worse excuse for limiting organizations. The Good Name has suffered mightily from the administration's policy toward freedom of the Faculty, yet policy remains what it always has been. The benefits of freedom--the experience and maturity gained from its use--are no less worthwhile for students. It is a mystery why the Corporation should be so bold in one case and so rimid in the other...
...television--in fact, we would like to see and hear more of its from local loudspeakers. We would also like to see and hear all undergraduate groups good enough to rate such an invitation to see and hear them unhampered by application, discriminatory or otherwise, of a needless rule. These groups have more to offer than their names, and we hope that the Corporation, which has disavowed responsibility for their actions, will balance its policy by disavowing its restrictions on their freedom...