Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...first meeting of the new year, the Student Council last night set up a watchdog committee to "keep in touch" with Congressional investigations of Communists in universities. It further appointed a group to study and late advise the Council on a plan of action for publicizing what it called the current threat to academic freedom...
There is strong internal evidence that one of these books, And I Learn About People, was actually written by a cocker spaniel named Delmar W. Beman Sr. The author writes as a dog, in the first person, sometimes even breaks into doggerel. Sample verses to a watchdog: Watching o'er one's mind and soul, / Watching o'er one's kin and friend, / Make time and living worth the while, / Breed strength and sureness / And warmness of smile...