Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With the scale of its season reduced to a sane level, Harvard would be able to compete on a par with Ivy League opponents except for one item: there is no system of job guarantees at Harvard. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth all offer this much to prospective athletes. Harvard, apparently, wants nothing to do with official job guarantees to its football players. Such a plan involving no more than 50 men would probably hit stonewall resistance--but help for athletes in the form of honest jobs need not depend on favoritism of any sort...
...Faculty's action is commendable and healthy. In the first place, the Tuesday action exhibits a willingness of the Faculty to consider and take quick action on matters brought up largely by the pressure of student groups. Even more important, the fact that Harvard's protest came from the level of the Faculty and not of the Corporation indicates clearly that the Faculty is quite willing and able to take the matter of academic freedom into its own hands and move to protect...
First, the important question of guilt by association still remains; just because a man may once have been present at an informal gathering of one of the 160 organizations listed as subversive, is he himself guilty of holding every view that particular organization nourishes? Second, on the Harvard level, if the certificate is usually administered to incoming students, one might think it would pertain only to a pre-Harvard background; but will NROTC students later be asked to renew their certificates as a check on what they have done since coming to College? Finally, shouldn't there at least...
...several years Britons have been looking down their noses at what they called "American spy hysteria." Last week, when one of their top atomic scientists was arrested as a Russian spy, the superior British stare turned slightly glassy. Dr. Klaus Fuchs, once a trusted top-level worker at the U.S. Atomic Laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex., had been detected, not by famed British Intelligence or Scotland Yard, but by the FBI, whom the British called into the case. Fuchs, said the FBI, had made a partial confession. He had been a secret member of the Communist Party...
...what they should be up to: they were all set for dormitory raids, pillow fights and secret midnight feasts. Foot's solution of the discipline problem: a student council made up of elected representatives from each class, supplemented later by the venerable system of student prefects. To level off social differences, he required all boys to do their share of tidying up, put a half-crown (35?) ceiling on weekly spending money. "We don't want any feeling of sheep and goats," said Foot. He settled on a school uniform of grey flannels and blue blazer, but avoided...