Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard recorded its unanimous disapproval of President Nicholas Murray Butler's curtailment of freedom of speech at Columbia yesterday whom American Defence, Harvard Group, joined with the Teachers' Union, the Student Union, and the American Defense League in condemning the action...
...Butler Repeats '17 Action...
...stand of President Butler in asking "those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the University's freedom to withdraw of their own accord," was generally interpreted as a repetition of his action in 1917 when two professors were dismissed for their views...
Professor Mather saw the real issue presented by Dr. Butler's statement as "the old problem of who it is that determines what "social learning" and moral teaching" are. If the faculty is to partake in the important matter of determining these things, differences of opinion may arise. He expressed the hope that President Butler's example would not be followed by the President of other universities "dedicated to the free pursuit of knowledge...
...Navy and its adjuncts shall be emphasized. The partisans of conscription say the Army should be stressed now, be reenforced, and eventually have millions of troops at its beck and call; and the conscriptionists have prevailed. The Senate Naval Affairs Committee, the late Smedley Butler, and many of the anti-conscriptionists, bespoke the cause of the naval forces, and they have lost the debate...