Word: student
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble," one student said last night, "is that Republicans leaders don't have big enough families. Tom Dewey doesn't even have one daughter. Maybe Governor Warren's daughter should have been picked...
Peter Blake, Curator of Architecture at New York's Museum of Modern Art, will lecture at 8 p.m. tonight in Keen Hall on the subject, "Objective version Subjective." The talk, which is open to the public, is under the sponsorship of the Student Council of the Graduate School of Design...
...This is the second in a series of editorials discussing Dean's Office and Council proposals for rules relating to undergraduate activities. Yesterday's editorial described the tremendous increase that has taken place since the thirties in Dean's Office regulation of student activities and found four major causes for this increase: 1) the cold war and consequent political tensions, 2) growing concern about organizational bad debts, 3) Increased sensitiveness about public relations, 4) a trend towards closer Harvard-Radcliffe relations which the Dean's Office considers extremely unfortunate. Today's editorial discusses the cold war and rules...
...Dean's Office fears that national political groups of which it disapproves will use the Harvard name as a shield for their activities. Thus The New Student, a magazine published by the Harvard Youth for Democracy, was denied Harvard recognition in January, 1948, on the grounds that 70 percent of its contributions and two-thirds of its circulation came from outside Harvard. This action was taken despite the fact that the magazine was edited entirely by Harvard students. It is unfair to imply that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities refused to recognize the magazine because of its political views...
...fact that the Committee was not thinking in terms of suppression does not mean that political considerations were not involved. The point is that before the war The New Student would have been chartered without question, whereas after the war it was closely scrutinized and finally refused recognition. The reason for this change is the cold war, which has lead to a determination on the part of the Dean's Office that outside political groups must not use the Harvard name and Harvard organizations as fronts for their activities...