Word: actions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University's action "raises serious questions of free speech. The reasons assigned by Mr. Greene are suave, persuasive and well stated. But they are sophistry," the Massachusetts Committee statement said...
...Greene was entirely justified in raising the question of good taste. But a sounder course of action for him would have been to protest on this ground and to suggest that the project be abandoned, but finally to abide by his previous commitment if the John Reed sponsors still wished it. The University could still remove itself from a compromising position by regrinding to Mr. Browder his permit to speak in the New Lecture Hall. Failing in that, Harvard will have to struggle as best it can against unjustified charges of reaction...
Dean Ferguson's full statement concerning the Boston newspaper coverage follows: "The Administration regrets the apparent breach of confidence which has resulted in the publication of what purports to be an interpretation as well as a record of the action taken by the Faculty yesterday." Information for the unauthorized story obviously came from a Faculty member, since outsiders are barred from the meeting...
Under the new system of assemblies of the entire Faculty, meetings will be held at regular periods, not less frequently than meetings of the now nonexistent Faculty Council. The necessary quorum for action will...
Thomas Dorgan, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and vociferous critic of Communists, said last night that he supported the University's action and promised he would get "brother Browder a good passport to take him to the University of Moscow where he belongs...