Word: actions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Varsity tankmen likely to see a good deal of action this winter are Jim Curwen, Frannie Powers, Art Bosworth, and Jack Waldron...
...halls exist. If this is so, however, Browder has been excluded without reason. Certainly the Corporation fails to specify any reason--unless by inference it is resting its case on the weak excuse previously advanced by Mr. Greene. In the absence of any verbal justification of the action, the suspicion grows that Browder is a persona non grata to Harvard authorities for more reasons than his passport peccadilloes...
John Reed '10, in whose honor the Society was named, was one of the world's best known Communists. As a war correspondent in Russia, he joined with Lenin and Trotsky, fighting during the Bolshevist Revolution. When Reed was killed in action, the Russians buried him in the Kremlin...
...Greene must certainly be surprised by the repercussions attending his refusal to grant a hall for a Browder meeting--from a "question of taste" it has become a "question of civil liberties." If the purpose of his action was not to deny free speech, it has, nevertheless, that very function, and in the present time when there is a general hounding of unorthodox, political groups, anything which might signify a restriction of free speech, a surrender to Mr. Dies' blackmailing, is to be carefully avoided. Mr. Greene's legitimate protest to the "New York Times" on its handling...
...working-class organization, however corrupt or degenerated it may be. We think Mr. Greene made a dangerous generalization when he affirmed his own taste to be the taste of the Harvard students. The subsequent outcry must have certainly raised some doubts in Mr. Greene's mind. And the collective action of the student body through its various organizations would certainly help Mr. Greene clear his mind on the question of good or bad taste. Consequently we think that Mr. Greene should rescind his denial of a hall and, by doing so, he will certainly show the good taste...