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Oliver subsequently became a chief justice in Massachusetts but was very unpopular because of his pro-British sentiments in the years before the Revolution. Several impeachments failed to remove him, but finally a mob dragged the judge from his bench only to let him escape. The next day an armed guard protected Oliver successfully...
Still others suspect the Dining Hall Department of unscrupulous motives. They think the Department buys left-overs in unpopular flavors to get lower rates. This could not be so, because in wholesale quantities (the University bought 57,615 gallons last year) all flavors cost the same. Nor is the University trying to encourage the Hoods production department's search for new varieties in the hope of finding a formula everyone likes. It is merely trying to break the monotony of the meals...
...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...