Word: standings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life isn't the only thing that's over. The world, as most of today's seniors know, is full of people who have agreed on orthodox ways of living and thinking, and who make it their chief concern to see that everyone follows them without a quibble. They stand ready to punish the unorthodox with varying degrees of severity, and continually join battle with any cases of non-conformity which protect and nourish the rebels. The most important sanctuaries for unorthodoxy are the colleges and universities, and in the past few years, many of them have been cocreed...
...Above all," Conant cautioned the prospective graduates, "there must be a determination to re-examine continuously the premises of one's own stand on many issues:--the courage to raise such questions with oneself as: Am I doing this or advocating that because I am really convinced that it will forward American democracy, or am I merely wrapping some fine phrases around a project which is closely connected with my own pet ideas or personal fortune...
Such a statement, calling for a loyalty check and inspired by the Commission's stand, is exactly what the CRIMSON feared. Thus it is heartening to read the statement written by the third of the Harvard men, Grenville Clark, with the approval of the Corporation...
...Clark and the Corporation have now told Mr. Ober and others who would use Mr. Conant's stand on Communism as an excuse for heresy-hunting that at Harvard "there will be no apparatus of inquiry and 'closer watch.' The harm done by the effort to discover even a single clandestine Party Member would outweigh any possible benefit...
...CRIMSON feared that the report of the Educational Policies Commission would tighten the squeeze on free inquiry in education. We now hope that the Corporation's stand will convince educators and legislators that a university, as the world has known it, is not a collection of timid souls vaccinated by jumpy men like Mr. Ober against ideo-logical disease. A university is a home for men free to grapple with an heretical germ and strong enough to resist the forces of fear and hysteria...