Word: statment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Statment" incorporated as part of the preceding resolution: We, the faculty of Bowdoin College, strongly object to the affidavit for the following reasons: First, it will restrict the exercise of academic freedom by both students and teachers. This effect arises because the affidavit constitutes an inquiry into belief and association and because its meaning is extremely vague. No objective criteria are given for identifying the organizations alluded to, and what constitutes support is not specified...
...enthusiasm, but every RFA to whom I have spoken agrees that his education was no asset during his basic training. Their leaders, in the traditional Army manner, would tell them, "Let us do all the thinking. It'll keep you all out of trouble," and although this was a statment of discipline, it was also one of fact. What was taught the men was often so overdone and geared for the minimum mentality that an intelligent person eventually could not help but rebel mentally, thereby losing whatever enthusiasm he may have started with...
...related developments, the CRIMSON learned that a New England branch of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League is making a thorough study of Wang's activities. Isidore Zack, an ADL staff member, said that the League is planning to make a statment on Wang's visit sometime next week...
...demonstrated his own versatility and high degree of competence at the Dudley exhibit last spring, is represented in this collection by a brush and ink drawing. Michael Biddle's humorous and highly personal conception of two particularly grotesque individuals, titled simply Cartoon, contrasts strongly with another very direct statment, Tom William's Big City Vignette, or with David Austin's sketch of more glamorous terrain, the Grand Canal of Venice...
Some appear to feel that enlightened college students, perhaps particularly men of Harvard, are not likely to be misled by such examples. The statment attributed to Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, who matriculated at Harvard, does not seem to substantiate this view. Dr. Oppenheimer is reported to have said that, in becoming a "real left winger" and acquiring "lots of Communist friends" he was doing "just what most people do in college or late high school." If this is the situation it would seem to be a most unfortunate one, and one which it is the duty of Harvard Corporation...