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...novelty awaiting in the years after college "will emerge in half-familiar forms," said Finley. ".... courage is the soul's willingness to accept novelty. It is the bed rock of all the virtues .... a watchdog at the door of the future to see that it stays open. But if courage waits and watches, love walks through the door. Only love can do so, because it alone has sufficient self-forgetfulness to venture freely beyond the self; hence it alone can see the world in its size and novelty...
After numerous votes, revotes, proposals and counter-proposals, the Student Council last night voted to sponsor a watchdog committee of college groups to speak for the undergraduates if and when future Congressional investigating teams act flagrantly...
...Robertson lets his confusion seep into his conception of the academic principles of his own University. He wants the Class of '29 to finance an alumni "watchdog Committee" which would bring professors' "socialistic and communistic" views into the arena of public debate, whereupon teachers would either change their ideas or change their jobs. But he forgets there already is such a committee, pledged and capable to screen Communists from employment. Its name is the Harvard Corporation, and it consists of seven alumni whose sound economics not even Mr. Robertson would question. He also ignores the fact that professors he calls...
Robertson said last night he has received 31 replies to his letter, with the ratio running about two to one in favor of his proposal for a "Free Enterprise Fund" and an alumni "watchdog committee." Many alumni, he said in the letter, have told him they would double their gifts if Harvard would clear out is "pinks...
...toward the abolition of lynching. But the President contented himself with appeals to the higher moral instinct of bigots and distorters of franchise in hopes that they will stop their practices. The Republican platform promised statehood for Alaska, more rural electrification, votes for the District of Columbia, and a watchdog approach to monopolies. We hope that these were ideas the President had to shelve for lack of television time since the proper time for their enactment is long past...