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While temporarily referred to the committee on rules, the Boston City Council's resolution condemning the appointment of Bertrand Russell appeared certain of passage at the next session of the Council on May 20th...
...appointment he said, "It is unbelievable that Harvard University should see fit to put a man of the moral character of Bertrand Russell on its faculty and throw him in contact with the impressionable young men who have been sent to Harvard...
...Harvard University will be pacing Bertrand Russell in a position to influence the youth of Greater Boston and corrupt their morals if it allows the British philosopher to become a lecturer on its staff next September," it was charged at yesterday's City Council meeting...
...Bertrand Russell is a propagandist. This is freely testified in all his writings and naive expressions of scientific rationalism. That he is of low moral integrity is amply demonstrated...
...Note: The University has made clear that the issue is not freedom of speech, but the power of the Corporation to appoint as lecturers whatever scholars it chooses. Bertrand Russell was not chosen because Harvard wishes to give freedom of speech to "eccentric ideas" about domestic relations. He was selected because he is a foremost scholar in the field of logic. He is not to lecture on the relations between male and female but on the relations between logic and language...