Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special letter to the CRIMSON yesterday, Bertrand Russell announced that the subject for his lecture in the Union on Friday night of this week, will be "Freedom versus Authority in Education". The choice of the subject was left to Mr. Russell's discretion by the authorities of the Union...
...telegram was received by the CRIMSON yesterday noon from Bertrand Russell's manager, announcing that the former would accept the invitation of the Governing Board to speak at the Union. The management of the Union announced last night that the date had been set for the evening...
...Bertrand Russell, now on a lecture tour of the United States, describes the difficulties of travel for persons whose opinions have not the official sanction of the country visited. "In England," Mr. Russell writes in his book, "Free Thought and Official Propaganda" (Huebsch), "it is illegal to teach belief in the Christian religion. It is also illegal to teach what Christ taught on the subject of non-resistance. In America no one can enter the country without first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy, and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan...
Yesterday the Union authorities announced that Bertrand Russell had not as yet definitely accepted the invitation to speak extended to him by the Governing Board over two weeks ago. Efforts by the CRIMSON to locate Mr. Russell by wire last night to obtain his replay to the invitation proved unsuccessful...
Almost simultaneously with the English Mr. Bridges arrived the brilliant Bertrand Russell who is said already to have discovered many corruptions on our shores; and to be retiring shortly to his native heath without much investigation. All this is a tremendous aid to Anglo-American amity. Personally, we favor sending our own Robert Bridges to teach the court of St. James that there are human, charming, gentlemanly literary men still left in a somewhat overcrowded profession...