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...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...
...whole teaching profession and most universities are "under the thumb of bigoted capitalists." It is a fact, so stated by Bertrand Russell. This brilliant English mathematician, again lecturing in America on social questions, has an international reputation for his willingness to discuss anything at any time on any evidence. His recent book on China is embellished by more errors than it was hitherto thought possible to squeeze into a single volume...
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...
Replying to various charges made against Harvard by the Hon. Bertrand Russell and printed in the CRIMSON, President Lowell yesterday addressed the following letter to the English essayist...
Such was the opinion of the Honorable Bertrand Russell, distinguished publicist, essayist and scientist, when interviewed yesterday at tea by a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Russell expressed his desire to speak at the University if arrangements can be completed. "I must warn you, however", he said, "that I lost the last shreds of respectability, so long ago that there may be serious opposition to my talking...