Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Characteristic part of Balkan political life is the student demonstration, often a bought-&-paid-for affair. At Belgrade, university students broke up a meeting of the Yugoslav Friends of France. Yugoslav authorities suspected Russian agents were responsible, arrested 50 students, put the autonomous Belgrade University under direct governmental control...
...departure from its traditionally inactive role as the academic honor society the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday voted to issue a call to all student organizations urging them to join in the formation of a committee to preserve academic freedom...
...must be prepared to defend our students and Faculty from the attacks of such outside groups as the Dies Committee, which, if it had its way, would end ultimately in the discouraging of all liberal scholarship and all active student interest in the most important social questions...
...first question is whether or not there is a need for such a committee. Now it is true that in the recent past several instances have been flashed on the public screen where student activities were suppressed by academic authorities without very convincing reason. But on the other hand this does not prove that a prairie fire of academic reaction is roaring down upon American colleges. Least of all down upon Harvard, where authorities made a silly mistake in the Browder case and otherwise have given every indication of wishing to toe the straight liberal line in affairs academic...
Discussing the ideal living quarters for the graduate student, Sperry visualized a unit that would include squash courts, an informal library, a small pool, and both a dining room and cafeteria...