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. Yesterday'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, 2) growing concern about organizational bad debts, 3) Increased sensitiveness about public relations, 4) a trend towards closer Harvard-Radcliffe relations which the Dean's Office considers extremely unfortunate. Today's editorial discusses the cold war and rules...
International tensions since the war have brought under scrutiny freedoms that went unquestioned during the thirties. People now ask how much freedom should be permitted those whom they believe seek to destroy freedom, a questioning which has on occasion caused mass hysteria and endangered individual rights...
...maelstrom of hysteria has never caught up the Dean's Office, and, indeed, Dean Bender's defense of the John Reed Club's right to sponsor a speech at Harvard by Gerhart Eisler was a strong statement of the case for individual liberties and free discussion. But the cold war has not entirely passed the College by, and it has, in fact, helped to shape the limitations on undergraduate activities...
...fact that the Committee was not thinking in terms of suppression does not mean that political considerations were not involved. The point is that before the war The New Student would have been chartered without question, whereas after the war it was closely scrutinized and finally refused recognition. The reason for this change is the cold war, which has lead to a determination on the part of the Dean's Office that outside political groups must not use the Harvard name and Harvard organizations as fronts for their activities...
...Radcliffe. The Dean's Office has become extremely worried about Harvard-Radcliffe relations since joint instruction was adopted as an emergency measure during the war and instituted permanently after the war. The Dean's Office is determined to halt what it considers an unfortunate trend towards closer union with Radcliffe, especially in undergraduate activities...