Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college presidents, deans of men, heads of schools of journalism, and students active in publications, reveals that this sort of thing is, fortunately, not very common in American colleges. Only in a few cases that have come to my attention do college authorities indicate that they approve of censorship in any form. On the other hand, almost without exception they appear to believe that student editors should be given complete authority, but authority accompanied by the complete responsibility that must accompany lawful authority in every activity of life...
...Censorship Contrary to ideals...
...definitive seemed the victory that President Gomez relaxed the usual rigid Venezuelan press censorship and permitted publication of all details. This was in sharp contrast to his conduct last month in suppressing for days all news of demonstrations by students who marched through Caracas shouting, "Down with the tyrant Gomez...
...such a power would be unenforceable and unwise. "The tradition at Harvard," said Dean Hanford, "has been largely that of laissez-faire in regard to the policies and actions of organizations so far as those policies and actions have not affected scholarship and academic standing." He felt that if censorship were to be exercised, it should come from the students themselves through the Council, but that he doubted whether at the present time there were any need for such control...
...recently created National Cinema Censorship Commission had taken no action, up to last week, on any of the 380 U. S. films now awaiting its approval. Since sales to French exhibitors for the forthcoming season are customarily made in April, U. S. film representatives were fuming with uneasiness in Paris, last week, lest the Commission diddle and dawdle until the films submitted to it lose most of their sales value...