Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World goes on to criticize the present involved and inefficient method of legal censorship. Its criticism of the old method is very well founded; but the improvements it suggests are just as noxious as the old evils. Twelve "good men and true" are to be the arbiters of New York's theatrical morals. What their special qualifications will be is left unsaid. They are probably the same as those which so eminently fit the average New York court jury for its legal task...
...cure is as bad as the disease not only because its machinery old and new is at fault; the entire principle of censorship is an out worn heritage of civilizations dead and gone. Its most persuasive ancient champion, Plato, fails to convince the reader of today that it is possible to legislate virtue into a populace. The medieval Inquisition tried in vain to keep religion in the hearts of men by the most cruel machinery of censorship the world has ever seen. Milton's "Areopagitica" gave the answer of a new civilization to this deadening philosophy...
Perversely the serpent censorship refuses to die. The Puritans revived it and brought on as a result the reaction of an unrestrained Restoration era. Even today the abortive principle occasionally raises its ugly head. Fortunately the very absurdity of the events and comments it drags in its wake are enough to disclose its own true and repelling nature...
...importance comes before the House Committee on Education at 10.30 o'clock this morning. It is a petition signed by W. P. Exton '26 providing that all duly accredited scholars shall have access to any and all printed matter in Massachusetts libraries. It demands that in these cases the censorship rules, which now prevent free inspection of many books, be suspended. Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 has given his approval to the petition. The hearing today is open to the public, and any men who, wish to say anything for or against the bill are at liberty to attend...
...short while ago, Norway upheld its dry law in a general election. France has placed all radio under the censorship of the police. Smoking has been prohibited in Mecca, the Holy City of the Moslems. In Russia the soviet commissar of health has issued an edict against kissing. Not only is the usual form of this indoor sport forbidden, the kissing of ladies' hands by men is also taboo. The practice is doubly accursed, being both unhygienic and bourgeois. Handshaking, too, has been prohibited in many departments...