Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard were shocked by the refusal of the University authorities to allow them to hear Earl Browder. It was not in "good taste," the authorities said, because Browder was under indictment for a passport violation. But a large number of students saw through this flimsy pretext, recognized in the ban against the secretary of the Communist Party a dangerous attack on civil liberties, and several hundred students expressed their recognition by petitioning the University in protest...
Young America now gobbles up about 10,000,000 comic books a month-an overseasoned, indigestible, nerve-shattering, eye-ruining diet of non-comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting. Traceable to these hyperthyroid thrillers are many a midnight scream in the nursery, many a juvenile nervous tantrum. Some parents ban the lurid comic books; the more thoughtful try to substitute "good" books. Meanwhile the comic books go marching on-with a slight drop due to the loss of the export market...
...spite of the ban which big bad Boston police have put on Esquire, a copy of that forbidden fruit mysteriously found its way into the Crimson office. More than that, it was coveted and scoured like a rare manuscript, and there was uncovered one article which all right-minded Harvard men should feel proud to read...
Beginning next Monday, propaganda activities in South America will be spotlighted. Highly treasured proof of German work has had to be smuggled out of Spanish America where Nazi influence a re-exportation ban on German literature...
...future which it is to be hoped will roll through Harvard and sweep away the antiquated House parietal restrictions. Symptomatic of a tendency to treat undergraduates more like adult citizens, the move also has the virtue of abolishing an impossible situation at least in the case of the liquor ban, which was unenforceable and universally winked at. The parallel with Harvard's chaperone and permission requirements for women guests is obvious...