Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deans Office used two criteria in turning down the New Student's application for recognition. Generally, the idea was that since the writing and circulation were preponderantly non-Harvard, there could be no valid argument that the magazine should be thought of as a Harvard enterprise. Though denying that more percentage figures could be the determinant, the Administration pretty clearly based their public case on figures and figures alone. In so doing, they left out a crucial function in magazine work: editing. A brief soon to be filed with the Council by the New Student's editors proves quite conclusively...
...first suggestion of argument over the point came after last spring's Faculty vote abolishing all "emergency" legislation enacted during the war. This Faculty decision had presumably included in its abolitions the required mid-term grades instituted to help students about to be untimely snatched by the armed forces, but a dispute arose over certain wordings. To clarify the situation finally, the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy passed a new resolution this fall, but the Faculty as a whole decided to withhold its vote until the Council's opinion had been heard...
...will question that this power is the most dangerous one to free government in the whole catalogue of powers. . . . In this case, the Government urged hasty decisions to forestall some emergency . . . and pleads that paralysis will result if its claims to power are denied. . . . I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effect and consequences of war, for if so they are permanent-as permanent as the war debts...
...they should have. But it has left man essentially free, while it gets more out of The Machine than Marxism does. But capitalism has failed to proclaim, so that the world can hear-and that is not to capitalism's credit-the victory it has won over the argument of the Manifesto...
...about it seems to indicate that no adequate substitute to fit the needs of Harvard College has been found. A few courses use term papers, but so few that they hardly presage any large-scale alteration in the system. The unchanging nature of examinations, though perhaps impressive in traditionalist argument, hardly answers the large number of intelligent charges made against them...