Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a strange philosophy at large in Harvard today--a strange fear of the menace of the emancipated Radcliffe girl. This fear expresses itself in the following argument: Harvard and Radcliffe have had joint instruction now since the war and a swarm of Annex women has pushed its collective foot into the College door; now that the first barriers are down (alas), this plague of women will move on to the clubs and organizations of Harvard. These girls, like the Yellow Peril, will sweep over the organizations. The resulting "feminization" will be the undoing of the Harvard club...
...derided these who fear that without the sedition law, Communists, who form to percent of this country's population, will be able to harm the rest of the people. "If we no longer want to be the land of the free," he said, "at least let us be the home of the brave...
Ludlow Griscom, Research Ornithologist, agreed with Randall that the Yard pigeons had little or nothing to fear-as a general group, that is. There are less than 50 duck hawks between Labrador and Massachusetts, Griscom said, and as for pigeons, "why they multiply almost to the fourth power...
...private institutions would be a magic-wand solution, if only certain considerable disadvantages were not attached. Such a program would be expensive, create administrative perplexities in distributing the funds, and would almost certainly result in some degree of government control. "He who pays the piper calls the tune." Educators fear that the government could easily impose specifications on what is done with the money it donates, and also that money-doling legislatures might frown on universities whose professors speak out of turn. Diversity is one of the great features of our educational system: a college or university must be free...
Nothing, I think, except flakes of drifting fear...