Word: student
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hutchins is teaching men to think and to act consistently with those thoughts. And if nothing else, his antiphony intellectualism procedures show that there are some men in the educational field who understand the plight of the ordinary college student...
Unfortunately, in its concern for solving these specific problems, the Dean's Office has failed to evolve any comprehensive philosophy of student rights. Consider the freedoms student groups have lost since before the war. They have lost the freedom to take any action outside Cambridge without Dean's Office permission, the freedom to have Radcliffe girls as members, the freedom to hold rallies in the Yard, the freedom to have a large volume of outside authorship in publications, and numerous other freedoms detailed in previous editorials in this series...
...Students too, and their organizations, should have the same rights. This is not merely an espousal of the liberal tradition under which Harvard operates, but a matter of sound administrative policy. As President Lowell pointed out in his classic statement on academic freedom, a University cannot regulate its professors' freedom of action without at the same time making itself responsible for everything that professors do. The parallel with student freedoms is striking. If the Dean's Office limits the freedom of student activities in order to solve the four problems outlined in previous editorials in this series...
...rules now binding student organizations should be abandoned. Instead, three simple rules should be substituted...
Although the names of those polled were anonymous to the student, the Social Relations Department recognized that this method could lead to abuse of their right to secrecy if the poll got into the wrong hands...