Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After meeting with representatives of Ivy Films and the Liberal Union, Associate Dean Watson '33 yesterday refused to arbitrate film scheduling conflicts between the two groups...
...case in point is the joint Liberal Union-Ivy Films petition soon to grace Dean Watson's desk. The Dean will be asked to regulate all undergraduate movies--to require registration of films slated for a run at Harvard and to enforce by College authority a first-come-first-rights rule in case of scheduling conflicts. This might seem like too much paternalism even for the Deans, but, considering University Four's past actions, this may not be the case...
...would not bother to object if the Deans had not already shown too much love for meddling. Watson in the past has established great control over the film business, which includes limiting HLU and Ivy Films to a set number of pictures per month, ostensibly to protect the interests of other groups which prosper on film profits. This may seem like a good idea, to take the weaker groups under an official wing, but for that matter the HLU-Ivy Films request might seem a good idea...
...past because it recognizes that education is worthless unless it involves decision-making as well as routine work. Schedule conflicts, squeeze plays, and inter-group disharmony are just the sort of problems that students can educate themselves by solving. If, whenever these problems afflict groups, the students run to Watson for mothering, the worth of a Harvard education must perforce decline...
...also suggest that Dean Watson unburden himself of responsibility for film showings, for seeing to it that the laws of Cambridge are respected, for making sure that the groups do not strangle each other or pull each others' hair, and let the organizations do the worrying. Unaccustomed as he is to enforcing freedom on students, that is what he should...