Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention to those Coughlin claquers who are barking at you and threatening to destroy your circulation. I shall undertake personally to get you a dozen or more new subscribers on the strength of your courageous stand against demagogues of Coughlin's sanctimonious type. Others will do the same...
...fascists in specific laboratories to a prohibition extending to graduate courses is no long step; from there the virus may spread to whole universities, and then go on to infect the entire educational system. Thus do such efforts to eliminate totalitarianism breed of themselves the germ they seek to destroy, and although Professor Bridgman has repeatedly maintained that science must know no nationalism if it is to continue to contribute to universal civilization, his present action contradicts to an alarming extent these very words...
...again made this law an effective barrier against teaching any theory or fact that might tend to alter the established order. Thus in practice the Teachers' Oath has proved a menace to the democratic system; and Harvard, as a liberal institution of learning, should actively support every effort to destroy this restriction upon intellectual liberty...
...expand in scope or it may simply be the wedge for more stringent laws. Obviously, in contrast to such a threat, any considerations of "town-gown" relations are insignificant. Harvard must again employ all its influence and prestige to help defeat a law which might some day destroy its own intellectual freedom...
Regardless of one's views on the American Student Union, any thinking person must regard the banning of that organization from the Roxbury Memorial High School as but another attempt of Boston educational authorities to destroy academic freedom. The Boston School Committee has justified this suppression on the grounds that the American Student Union constitutes a "Communist" menace, boring subversively at the city school system from within...