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...find itself stumped by a mere technicality. If all "legal" student organizations are allowed to distribute pamphlets, the Young Communist League, by reason of its concealed membership, will be automatically exiled. But such suppression need not exist. The material, and not the "legality" of the organization, should be the criterion. Whenever a college group has something worthwhile to say, it should bring its pamphlet to a University committee aimed not at shielding undergraduate minds but at keeping advertising material from front door mats. Only then will a sincerely written Communist message receive as much freedom as the Lowell House Chronicle...
...judge any program by whether I think it tends to distribute power and bring about equilibrium, whether it tends to destroy privilege, whether it subjects itself to reason and measures itself by criteria-the chief criterion in the economic field being the release of productive energy. My program, which is the program of a journalist, and not the program of a person with any political ambitions whatsoever, is to try to make more people think along these lines...
...Missouri, were even more skeptical of Lina Medina's extreme youth. Most of the members believed that Lina was at least eight or nine, little younger than several U. S. child mothers now living in the South. Baby teeth, said the critical U. S. doctors, are no criterion of age. Lina's early menstruation, said U. S. pediatricians, was probably caused by an ovarian tumor. Ovarian tumors are not rare, sometimes cause menstruation in children a year old, often produce glandular changes which stunt growth. Concluded A.M.A. spokesman Dr. Morris Fishbein: "It is difficult or impossible to determine...
...position of the Master is not an enviable one. He must interview a large group of men in a very short time, and make a selection, based not on a simple criterion such as scholastic standing, which, as the editorial admits, would be unfair, but rather on a large number of factors, such as interest in outside activities, friends in the House, accessibility to a desired tutor, and the number of rooms available in the applicant's price range...
...years of The Nation, and tireless champion of civil liberties, no such question is possible. Son of the builder of the Northern Pacific, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, friend of liberals big and little, Villard has more than most of the autobiographers to write about, if the criterion were staying power, number of fights, and refusal to admit defeat...