Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Censorship found an adherent last night in the first meeting of the Inter-House Forum in Lowell House as Charles B. Feibleman '36, secretary of the Harvard Debating Council, declared that censorship would prevent quacks from selling tablets of tapeworms as reducing medicines...
...affirmative of the argument which finally forced Frederick deW. Bolman, Jr. '35, chairman of the Forum and chairman of the Debating Council, to call a halt to the hostilities, was taken by A. Gilman Sullivan '36, who maintained that abolition of censorship would "assure an avoidance of the decadence of the arts...
...first forum to be held Thursday night at 7.30 o'clock in Lowell House the topic "Should Censorship be Abolished" will be discussed in seven minute speeches by Thomas H. Quinn '36, Charles E. Feibleman '36, and Sullivan. Afterwards speakers from the floor may talk for three minutes in a forum not to last more than an hour. All members of the University are invited to attend...
When Communistic organizations are allowed public expression for their views, the oft-repeated charge of Fascism in education becomes pointless. Any attempt at censorship in the name of Democracy, moreover, is absurd and dangerous. Among liberal democratic ideals the freedom of the individual--which involves freedom of expression and of publication--is fundamental. Minorities, if we are to avoid crystallization and decay, must be allowed to criticize existing conditions and in turn to submit their proposals to criticism, so that the evil or the unworkable may be rejected and the valuable utilized. The defensive panic of reactionaries, rather than...
...some of our readers may know, several of us have been in a position to learn the inside dope on the German Measles epidemic. Our first representative, released yesterday from the rigid censorship of Stillman Infirmary, tells us that the Teutonic Plague is only the causus bell for an intrigue between Dr. Hathaway and Dr. Means...