Word: bolsheviks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When a professed Bolshevik was allowed to mouth his doctrines in the precincts of the University, the CRIMSON became indignant and suggested that he ought to have been stopped. It has pointed out that a difference exists between free speech and propaganda, but there seems to be no possibility of drawing the line. Experience has shown that it is impossible to shut up a "Red," as long as there is a street corner and a soap box. If we forbid him to speak, we play into his hands by giving him one more grievance to talk about. Our resistance must...
...radicals say they want "facts." Very well, let us give them facts. They bring forward credulous sentimentalists who have seen the Russian situation under the careful guidance of a Bolshevik Commissar. Surely, we can find men who have lived under the Red Terror and have seen the brutalities of Lenine's Chinese mercenaries and the countless unnamable horrors that have marked the ascendancy of the Soviet...
Classification is the remedy that Dr. Nathan Isaacs, Thayer Teaching Fellow in the Law School, would apply to the so-called radical and Bolshevik element not only in the country as a whole but in the colleges and universities as well. Formerly assistant dean of the Cincinnati Law School, Dr. Isaacs resigned his position in 1918 to join the army; since the armistice he has been connected with a department of the government interested in the study of foreign groups and their movements...
...Among the forces that held this incongruous mass together, no inconsiderable part was played by the forces from without that rushed them together under the meaningless formula 'Bolshevik.' The agitators have generally shown more cleverness in making use of this apparent solidarity than the forces of law and order have in depending upon the very real lack of solidarity that a bit of analysis might readily reveal...
...first step in exorcising this Bolshevik demon in Harvard or anywhere else, is analysis. There is no purpose in attaching the odium of pro-Germanism, of insidious foreign propaganda, of bomb throwing, and of dark plotting to the man who is merely speculating as to governmental theory and practice or wondering about a line of decisions of our supreme court...