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...Harvard drama. If one accepts this philosophy of dramatic art, one is of course led to the conclusion that efficiency is all that is needed. Hence, a strong central bureaucracy is indispensable to provide capital for heavy investments in costumes and sets, to arrange performance dates, and to withold financial support from inferior productions. Of course, this would involve the surrender of a certain amount of freedom by each group. But undoubtedly some sort of case could be made for the essential function of professional extravaganzas in fostering a liberal education...
Subsequent events do not sustain the Corporation's decisions. One week after its announcement, Dr. Markham, whom, the Corporation found had never been a member of the Party, reappeared before the Senate Subcommittee and again invoked the privilege to withold statements regarding present and past membership. Harvard Corporation then suspended her, stating that developments raised a question whether her conduct merited dismissal "either because she had not old us the truth, or because of her attempts to ally us with her in her refusal to testify*** or because we can no longer reasonably believe that she is free of Communist...
...least no one on this Court which has repeatedly sustained the assertion by Communists of the privilege against self-incrimination, questions or doubts Orloff's right to withold facts about himself on this ground. No one believes he can be punished for doing so. But the question is whether he can at the same time take the position that to tell the truth about himself would incriminate him and that even so the President must appoint him to a position of honor and trust. We have no hesitation in answering that question...
Warm, generous, jellylike people are repugnant to cold, precise Chancellor Chamberlain. He "indicated" to correspondents what he called a "tentative refusal" of Lady Houston's proffered gift. It appeared that what the impulsive Dame had actually done was to withold her due income tax payment of $151,200, offering instead her gift of $756,000. Most irregular. Not cricket...
...announcement was not official since the Harvard authorities had been hoping to withold it until the footbal banquet on Friday evening but the news broke out yesterday afternoon and, although at first categorically denied by the Athletic Association, was later confirmed as authoritative...