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This crow of student tutors, the majority of whom are freshmen, works through 31 social service agencies in the Greater Boston area. According to Committee chairman Anthony G. Oettinger '51 most of the 335 tutees currently enrolled in the program are teenagers who are having trouble with the usual high school fare of Algebra, English, and languages...
This enemy, Berlin disclosed in a recent article in Time and Tide, British weekly, is the over-emphasis on social and economic miseries of our times. This gives a sense of guilt to the student or professor who wonders whether he is justified in absorbing himself in the study, "let us say, of the early Greek epic at Harvard while the poor of South Boston go hungry and unshed and Negroes are denied fundamental rights in the deep South...
...Harvard Dean's Office, on the other hand, fears that Harvard will lose its all-male flavor if Radcliffe girls are included in Harvard organizations. The classroom has been lost, but student groups must not be. There are many in the University hierarchy who feel sure that closer union of Harvard-Radcliffe student groups is inevitable, but the men who are most directly in charge of extra-curricular activities intend to stave off this "wave of the future" if they...
Thus the Dean's Office, because of its fear of merger of Harvard-Radcliffe student activities, has limited the students' own freedom of decision on the problem. Its pattern of action is identical to that shown by its reactions to the problem of post-war political tensions, bad debts, and public relations...
This pattern has been for the Dean's Office to take on responsibilities which in the thirties were assumed to belong to the student groups. Tomorrow's editorial, the last in this series, will consider whether this assumption of responsibility--and the right to supervision and control which is derived from it--is a desirable one for Harvard...