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...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...
...outhouses"--Claverly, Apley, and Dudley--will likely be put in moth balls first, since they are expensive, hard to maintain and unpopular with students. They are now used for the sophomore overflow from the Houses, and for those expelled from the Houses...
Advocates of extreme ideas, however unpopular, have not been denied a hearing at this University. But this is precisely why the nine-hundred-odd persons who filled New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon to hear Paul Robeson were puzzled when Robeson did not appear. Perhaps they had not all come to hear and weigh carefully the extreme views Mr. Robeson would doubtless have expressed. But they were there none the less, and the Young Progressives must be chided gently for failing to produce their man. Since they had similar ill-luck with William E. Du Bois on Monday night, even their...
...does bring up some problems that are not peculiar to the north woods. The emphasis on security rather than initiative disturbed Professor Handlin of Harvard's History department so much that he wrote a magazine article on it last month. The preference for safe plodding rather than expression of unpopular opinions has unfortunately gone far beyond the college stage and is currently plaguing everyone from President Truman down. And alumni reunions have become the focus of college thought in many cases because alumni often have money and most colleges badly need money today...