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...problem. Orders, inspired by practical experience, were given to stop a demonstration. They were carried out. Had the police been saner and had less the fooling of a field day, these regrettable instances, of course, might have been avoided. But Harvard must remember, also, that a riot in Charlestown is a more alarming occurrence than a case of spring fever in the Square. It is easy to sit around afterwards and philosophize on fairly sound grounds, but to make the arguments effective they must be constructive...
...whole Charlestown affair is unfortunate. While the police have a presentable case on their handling of the riot, they and the courts carried their jobs to illogical extremes. Both of these latter developments should merit careful review. But there is one important indication which stands forth from the welter of confused comment; not only the police, but also the rieters must be taught to consider riots and freedom of speech in their proper perapective. Let the Committee use their findings to achieve this purpose...
...Harvard professors were among those who took the witness stand Saturday in the interests of the defendants in the "riot" trial which is rapidly nearing completion in the Charlestown District Court...
...Justice," wrote a trenchant wise-man, "is the will of the strong." But it is often unseasonable to bring the truth to light, lest in the minds of lesser men, it dazzles, and becomes no longer a somatic observation, but a personal compulsion. Judge Charles S. Sullivan of the Charlestown court is doubtless well-read in concepts of justice, and with long experience on the magistrate's bench unquestionably has formulated his own position concerning this most difficult ethical problem. Before his judicial vision unfolds more than seven-hundred years of British Common Law. The pillars of his chambers rest...
Lapin, questioning young Dennett, a Sophomore at Harvard, had established that two days before the demonstration in Charlestown, which provoked the arrests, Dennett had had a conversation at police headquarters with Inspector Benjamin Goodman of the radical squad...