Word: censor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Noyes will read chiefly selections from his poems on submarine warfare which were suppressed in England by the censor...
...about to "investigate," or does it confine its investigations purely to anti-war speeches? A short while ago Count Tolstoi, the son of the world famous author, was prevented by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia from delivering a speech in the precincts of that university which the censor at Moscow had seen fit to pass as harmless, even for Russia! Is that doctrine of of- fering public insult to a leading citizen of one of our possible allies to be left uninvestigated? It is not so long ago that the Harvard authorities prevented the widow of Mr. Sheehy Skeffington...
...hand, under which his own theories might lose their identity. He is trying to work out college problems and solve them to the best of his ability. Naturally he resents interference, as he wants his paper to represent his own thoughts, unslashed by the blue pencil of a professional censor...
...each one in turn presents its ideas to the reading public. The Transcript notes that the present CRIMSON policy favoring preparedness does not coincide with that of the board of two years ago. The reason is plain; the present board has a radically different attitude. How could a faculty censor improve matters? Certainly he could no feel justified in binding the CRIMSON editors to a fixed, consistent policy, to which they could not sincerely subscribe...
...comes press censorship will follow, and at first the censor will do strange things. He will be working for ends he cannot clearly define by means with which he is wholly unfamiliar. Military information of importance may be withheld from an enemy by the publication of dispatches in this form, but they will look queer until we get used to them: "Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 30.--Mr. Bryan said today: "The -- is cast. From this moment we are all--. Our shores were invaded at dawn. Before sunset one--volunteers will spring to arms.'" Dashes are less cumbersome than (word or words...