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...doors. There is some theory to this: the smell of basil was long thought to strengthen the heart and take away melancholy, while the scent of violets was considered an aid to digestion. It cannot be an accident that gardeners so often last so long. Cato the Censor, a fine source on growing cabbages, lived to 85, a very old age in ancient Rome. Medieval Theologian Albertus Magnus, whose green thumb led to charges of witchcraft, died at 87, while one of America's Founding Gardeners, Thomas Jefferson, lived...
...than fire. Book publishing first flourished in Russia under Catherine the Great, and yet it was she who used local police, corrupt and ignorant, to enforce the country's first censorship regulations. Czar Nicholas I conducted a sort of terrorism against certain books and writers. He functioned as personal censor for Pushkin and banished Dostoyevsky to Siberia. Revolution only encouraged the Russian candle-snuffers. Lenin said, "Ideas are much more fatal things than guns," a founder's nihil obstat that culminated in the years of poet destruction (Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva) and book murder under Stalin...
...hopes the Faculty will ignore Shinagel's proposal. Harvard should be an advocate, not an opponent, of the free press. Presumably, the free speech committee was formed to protect, not impede, our First Amendment rights. Drafting guidelines for campus publications would place the committee in the role of censor--when American society has already affirmed in numerous laws and court cases the freedom of the press...
...Spence in their statements clearly delineated the University's stance on academic freedom. "The fact that opponents could voice their concerns did not mean that the University would undertake to censor what professors lecture on in the classrooms," Bok said...
Speaking at the Kennedy School of Government, Judith Krug told an audience of about 25 University librarians that Reagan Administration efforts to censor information about crucial periods in recent history makes their duty to provide records to the public increasingly important...