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Reasonable and thinking people naturally frown upon any such appointment as the appointment of a man of the known proclivities of Bertrand Russell. Maurice H. Sullivan, City Councillor...
Harvard is an academic corporation granted a charter under certain specific conditions. This is tantamount to a license to engage in the teaching profession, provided the University abides by the provisions of the charter. The appointment of Bertrand Russell is grossly out of accord with the conditions laid down...
Opponents of the plan will undoubtedly attack it as being inspired by Harvard professors, Communists, Nazis, and probably even by Bertrand Russell. But the fact is that it is simply an American scheme, worked out by practical Americans, for the solution of an old American problem-inefficient municipal government. The Boston Herald...
This is the principle of free speech. It appears to be little known. If therefore anyone should require any further information about it I refer him to the United States Constitution and to the works of the founders thereof. Yours faithfully, Bertrand Russell...
Denying that freedom of speech was ever contemplated as his defense either by the College of the City of New York or the Harvard Corporation, Bertrand Russell pointed out in a letter to the CRIMSON that the issue in both cases is the right of a university to appoint its own teachers...