Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club, a social group, now has quarters at 20 Holyoke Street but expressed a desire to move some time ago to Associate Dean Watson. Watson said he had received no word of Yearbook Publications' bid for the building...
Last year's council did all these things. Then it examined each rule with strict attention to necessity, desirability, practicability, and consequences. It was not the council's fault that Dean Watson and the Administrative Board chose to ignore a large part of its objections and the whole of their basis in principle. The little green sheet was enacted by the deans and printed up far too late for the fall council to consider...
With the new term, Dean Watson had a new council to deal with, and he has taken full advantage of that fact. He waited over a month before letting the council know why the deans had rejected the students' point of view. He then told the council that its objections were mere questions of wording. He pointed out that the rules had already been printed. The deans do not want to interfere with student organizations, he said; they only want to make sure that nothing goes wrong. Their duty commands that they guard the name of Harvard, and they must...
Besides, as Dean Watson demonstrated, the deans make the rules they want. The council can debate any matter for any period of time. It can prove beyond question the injustice or impropriety of any decision. The deans make the rules they want...
...hope that next fall Dean Watson will consider more fully and more reasonably the principles of independence propounded by the 1950 Student Council and neglected Monday by an inexperienced council in a mood of resignation...