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...famous scholars and scientists jump through the hoop of Mr. Dorgan who apparently has never for-gotten his school failures (how many times has he tried the bar examinations?) and swear that they will teach to the best of their ability? Is this not an insult: and if such a pledge is exacted at all should it not come from the profession, as in the case of physicians, and not from a body of politicians? Is it not a tragic farce that the most conscientious profession should get on its knees and swear to the least conscientious (outside of downright...
...Unfortunately, and I hope coincidentally, two of the three drives I have worked on at Harvard have gotten involved in student politics. Although the additional publicity can be rationalized into an asset, the loss to the prestige of the charities is great...
What in the world has gotten into the students of Harvard? I note in the Christian Science Monitor of April 9 that (a) the Law School Forum has cancelled the participation in a debate of Howard Fast, the Communist novelist, and (b) some other unnamed organization has cancelled a film starring Paul Robeson, the Communist actor. What are the students so frightened about? Is their faith in themselves and in democracy so feeble that they fear subversion from the dreary imbecilities of Howard Fast or from the cavortings of Paul Robeson as the Emperor Jones...
...June 1951, before the Korean truce talks began, "we had the Communist armies on the run . . . We stopped by order, did not pursue to finish the enemy ... I believe we would have gotten all his heavy equipment and perhaps 200,000 or 300,000 prisoners ... I was crying [for Washington] to turn me loose...
...Deputy Minister of War Marshal Zhukov, Russia's greatest military hero of World War II. Finally. Malenkov took pains to hand out plums to national minorities, e.g., a comrade from Azerbaijan was made an alternate member of the Party Presidium, the first time that a Moslem has gotten a top political job in Russia...