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...incriminate him. . . A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril." Meiklejohn points out that in a criminal procedure, the defendant is the "ultimate judge as to whether or not he shall testify." He then asks the question: "On what grounds do they assign to a Congressional Committee an authority over an accused person which, in criminal proceedings, is denied to every agency charged with the administration of justice...
Here, then, is the question which I wish to ask the writers of the Crimson letter. On what grounds do they assign to a Congressional Committee an authority over an accused person which, in criminal proceedings, is denied to every principal seems more firmly fixed than agency charged with the administration of Justice...
...single chapter of many historicals. He simply tells a fine story full of color and action, informed with a sense of history as pervasive as it is unobtrusive. Professors trying to explain how the Turks were able to wallop the Christian armies of Byzantium could do much worse than assign The Lady for Ransom...
Universal Military Training, which has been seriously considered for the past two years by Congress, loomed a distinct possibility yesterday with the government's recommendation of a special lottery system which would assign men to either the present two year service of a special six-month training...
Whatever portion of the blame for this you assign to the public, a good share must go to those professors and students who completely discount public opinion as irrational blabbering of a "great beast." And part must also go to university officials who carried traditional Harvard indifference to the point of refusal to dignify charges with convincing replies. Freedom of inquiry and publication may have made inevitable the University's acquisition of a Red label in the thirties--a label fixed even firmer in the last three years by those who hunt throughout history to make headlines. But the University...