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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the old row broke out anew. With the annual elections still more than a month away, 605 out of 788 sophomores signed a petition declaring that they would join no club at all unless bids were extended to every student seeking election. It was true, said the sophomores, that the 17 clubs now took in 87% of those who wished to belong, but it should...
...Some student and graduate clubmen howled in protest. The sophomores were infringing upon the clubs' "basic right of selectivity." But there were plenty of other clubmen who disagreed: 217 said they would themselves resign unless the sophomores had their way. By week's end, the sophomores seemed to be winning the battle that Woodrow Wilson lost. Said Chairman William Wallace of the Undergraduate Interclub Committee: "The clubs will try their best to fit their election machinery to the sophomore...
Snyder and other entomologists, on whose work he has drawn for the new catalogue, have found termite species in every area of the world except the Arctic and Antarctic. The study of termites is something of a challenge, even to such a determined student as Snyder. The trouble is, most termites are blind and soft-bodied, shun light, and always conceal themselves in the earth, wood, or any other of the more than 150 different objects (ranging from toy blocks to Egyptian mummies) in which they have been discovered. Termites are fond of wood because their digestive tracts harbor...
Neither Harvard nor any other university can afford to have students shy away from the controversial questions of the day. Education verges on the meaningless if a student feels he is taking a personal risk when he seeks to listen to, understand, and grapple with troublesome ideas. University officials, in statements made over the years, have shown that Harvard understands this principle. If the principle is to stand, the University now must use all the power at its command to end these interferences with free inquiry made in the name of loyalty. It would be pointless, and harmful to military...
...university community that this questionnaire, as recently amplified by the Navy ruling, works the greatest damage. An NROTC student who has to testify to his past purity is subjected to a form of political intimidation. If he wishes to avoid trouble, he will be extremely unlikely to exercise his curiosity by examining the operations and doctrines of proscribed groups. And even the student who doesn't go near NROTC headquarters will be wary of listening to ideas labeled "subversive," if he knows that a person "similarly associated" may one day jot this down on a Navy questionnaire for possible...