Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of editorials discussing Dean's Office and Council proposals for rules relating to undergraduate activities. Tuesday'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, discussed in yesterday's editorial, 2) growing concern over organizational bad debts, and 3) Increased sensitiveness about public relations, discussed today, 4) a trend towards closer Harvard-Radcliffe relations which the Dean's Office considers extremely unfortunate, to be taken up in tomorrow's editorial...
...bankrupt organizations turn to the University for payment, the Dean's Office feels that it must do what it can to prevent student groups from getting into financial difficulties. Hence it has built up a network of financial supervision. For instance, there is a rule, new since the war, that no student group may carry on any activity outside the city limits of Cambridge without Dean's Office permission. And as a check against bankruptcy nearer home, the Dean's Office requires that an annual financial statement be submitted to it by every undergraduate organization...
This particular incident is only a symptom of the University's current public relations consciousness. This sensitivity to public opinion has intensified the Dean's Office concern over organizational bad debts mentioned above, and over the problems created by post-war political tensions, which were considered yesterday. In each case the fact that people blame Harvard rather than the specific undergraduate group involved has led the Dean's Office to try to prevent ahead of time actions which could lead to an unfavorable public reaction...
...cards were set up during the war, Kennedy explained, when enrollment changed so fast that instructors had no idea how many students would take their courses. Instructors can now make a good guess on class enrollment, and preliminary cards are no longer necessary for the spring...
...figure--secured this fall without any formal membership drive--runs well ahead of last year's total. 1947 was the only year since before the war to produce a comparably high PBH membership...