Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the meeting, over which Quinn. appointed temporary chairman, presided, there was a spirited discussion as to whether "Censorship, literary, artistic, dramatic, or politic, should be abolished from the United States." When finally voted upon by the 25 or 30 present at the meeting. It was decided that such censorship should be abolished. This first meeting of the new council has met with gratifying enthusiasm, and the officers announce that it will be the custom to open the debates to all members of the Freshman class...
There will be a Parliamentary debate open to all members of the Freshman class in the Union this evening at 7 o'clock. The topic to be debated upon is "Censorship in the United States." After the debate there will be the election of permanent officers of the Council...
After the recess there will be a parliamentary discussion on Friday, January 6, in the Union, on the question: "Resolved. That censorship, artistic, literary, and dramatic, should be abolished in the United States." This will be open to all Freshmen. After the discussion members of the 1936 Debating Council will elect officers to replace the temporary ones selected at the beginning of the year. T. B. Quinn '36 is the temporary president of the team, and Lewis Perry, Jr. '36 and J. S. Bach '36 are temporary recording secretary respectively...
...Cambridge, the censors declared the play unfit for presentation in Boston, and the show was closed before it had run its allotted number of performances. This came as a great surprise to all those connected with the production, and earnest pleas were made for a reconsideration of the censorship of a play which dramatic critics had considered a really superb bit of playwriting. The club decided to let the matter drop, however, and to carry on as before...
...term. While this type of liberalism does not seem objectionable to him, he refuses to tolerate the undergraduate who, dissatisfied with college, rulings, resorts to pseudo-revolutionary activity. Essentially, Dr. Robinson's idea is sound; yet, while claiming to be a liberal, he has the effrontery to approve of censorship in one of the college publications...