Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Croaker does not admit any softness for his patients. "You can't kiss these tough babies," he grunts. "They don't respect you for it." But when all the prisoners at "Q" deliberately snubbed unhappy James Watson, a spindly, mouse-eyed confessed murderer of seven wives, Dr. Stanley took pity. He made Bluebeard Jimmy a nurse in the TB ward, found him "a gentle, sympathetic man and a fine helper...
...Student Council committee will submit to the Council tonight their arguments and suggestions concerning Associate Dean Watson's Regulations for Undergraduate Organizations...
Goldfarb contended that the attitude some Council members have toward the Dean's Office is bad. "The crux of the problem," he stated, "is whether the Council is sincerely trying to get Dean Watson to change the rules. if you (the Council) are going to be passive at the outset by claiming that nothing can be done, nothing will be done...
...assurances that it is a Harvard students enterprise and financially responsible." Last December the Council recommended that this extra requirement be deleted on the grounds that it was redundant: there are, in fact, specific rules, elsewhere in the booklet that are entirely sufficient to cover both these potential dangers. Watson and the Faculty Committee are afraid that outsides powers will dominate the policies of a new publication; but have they considered the very first rule in the booklet? "Recognized organizations must maintain their local autonomy. The criterion for local autonomy shall be whether the college organization make all policy decisions...
...Watson, in presenting the Committee's case for retaining the publication rule, fails entirely to discuss this point. He adds only one new "argument" that twice since 1940 the Dean's Office has stamped out a publication that seemed to be subject to one or the other of these weaknesses. This calling to mind of past Dean's Office practice does not, of course, prove that this practice was proper; but it does serve to indicate why University Hall is so worried as to want to control new publications more rigidly than other new groups. The specter...