Word: butting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Even more than the charges against the meeting do we resent the implication that the University authorities only sanctioned the meeting because they were ignorant of its character. This seems a direct insinuation that the Harvard administration is unwilling to let both sides of a difficult question be studied here...
The letter ends with an exhortation to the sponsors of the meeting to come forth and declare their belief that "Social and economic theories now in practice in Russia are in any sense applicable to the traditions, institutions and aims of this country." We are sorry to disappoint, but none...
The principle of free speech has had almost universal acceptance since a hundren and twenty-five years ago. In countries and localities where it has been applied, "free trade in ideas" has usually resulted in the separation of the good from the bad, and "the power of though to get...
But there are some things which, although carried on under free speech, are only excesses, and in no way promote the purposes for which free speech was instituted and is now supported. Legally, these excesses cannot be prevented without imposing some sort of powerful censorship; and such censorship could not...
No one will deny that members of the University or anyone else has the "right" to hear "facts" about Russia. Nor will anyone deny that those people eager for the knowledge can ask any person they please to tell them about Russia. But an entirely different light is thrown on...