Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenging and plain-spoken document, the Church of England last week called on all Britons to revise their think ing about sexual offenders. A special council set up to study the problem said that the church sternly and without reservation "condemns all infractions of the Christian teaching on sexual chastity," but nevertheless contends that "long experience has shown that it is futile to attempt to crush sexual immorality by statutory measures and police action." Because consideration of the subject "is repugnant to many thinking people, for many years much-needed reforms in the laws relating to homosexual offenses and prostitution...
Laws and policemen, said the report, are right to "punish procuration, the keeping of brothels and offenses against decency," but sexual malpractice itself can in the end "only be defeated by education." A first step in the educational process, according to the churchmen, would be to erase "the double standard of sexual morality which condemns in women what it condones...
...would be easy to dismiss i.e. as a product of sexual repression or sheer mysticism, simply by mentioning its many absurd assertions: "At Harvard, we have absolutely no emotional life.... Harvard does not cultivate a respect for the intellect... the students who are more or less artists or intellectuals and are busy thinking and painting are all stimied." (sic) But in the midst of the inanity and polemic, i.e. expresses forcefully generally felt undergraduate fears that creeping prestige-consciousness threatens their intellectual integrity. Although i.e.'s attempt to prove that the University is somehow responsible for human vanity seems unfounded...
...CRIMSON according to i.e., need only serve as "an outlet for energies and the expression of a point of view." Most Crimeds, however, feel that, beside blowing off steam, they are developing an intellectual discipline which may liberate them from confusion. Seeking its own kind of integrity, not sexual or emotional, the CRIMSON spends much of its time attempting to clarify issues, and, we hope, offering constructive solutions. In the process, it would like to have a rational point of view. If this not enough, we leave the presentation of an irrational...
Since prestige consciousness, and sexual-repression, are unavoidable problems for the individual in any society, it is unfortunate that i.e. has identified them with specific institutions. Abolishing exams, or even as a logical following, Harvard degrees, will not do away with prestige. If the final clubs were done in, a "polished" set would develop at the Casablanca, discomfiting the artist and the thinker even more that at present. After all, there isn't room for all the white shoes at Princeton...