Word: unpopular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subpoena being served on Dean Watson for the YP membership lists is very small. There is no reason to question the good faith of University Hall in protecting the secrecy of the list in other cases. But the YP is worried about its lists. Minority opinions are so unpopular these days that men who hold them are to be excused for excessive caution. It is important to afford the holders of these opinions all possible protection...
...result might have been foreseen. The YP now has an official membership of 15 men: approximately ten men, according to president Lowell P. Beveridge '52, have refused to join the organization officially. Perhaps these men have really been forced to quit the group because of fear that their unpopular opinions might do them damage; more likely they will simply become twilight members, participating secretly in the group's activities. In either case no good has been done...
These ten men--even if they are only a multiplied figment of Mr. Beveridge's mind and are really only one or two men--these ten men may be unreasonably suspicious. But why should we stigmatize the holders of unpopular opinions for being suspicious? And why should University Hall, in the interests of its own convenience, work a hardship on such a group of men whose existence in the unhealthy atmosphere of today should be jealously guarded? The Dean's Office has allowed a small matter of bureaucratic efficiency to outweigh much larger considerations...
...purpose of the meeting is to outline plans for forming a Harvard local of the A. F. L. if a discussion of the H.U.E.R.A. system shows that it is unpopular with its members...
Because the University has so often refused to censure or suppress unpopular political groups at the urging of legislators, alumni, or midwestern newspaper, it is easy to accept Dean Griswold's statement as a natural occurrence. It might be a repetition of what Grenville Clark said two years ago concerning the free expression of the Harvard faculty, or Dean Bender's statement at the time Gerhart Eisler spoke in the Yard...