Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beta Kappa on its call for a committee to preserve academic freedom. The need for such a committee grows daily more apparent as college after college after college, with the exceptions of Yale and M. I. T., follows Harvard's rules of etiquette in refusing to allow Earl Browder to speak before student organizations in college buildings. We have, as yet, no assurance that the Harvard authorities are convinced that they "made a silly mistake in the Browder case" nor that they will not be encouraged by their success as a model for etiquette to take further steps...
While reaffirming its previous decision of barring Earl Browder, Communist leader, from speaking at Harvard, the Corporation has set up a Faculty-Undergraduate committee with "wide powers" to grant and withhold permission to use University buildings, it was announced last night...
...When Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, talked at Yale last year, only 268 undergraduates turned out to hear him. But last week Comrade Browder had what pressagents know as "a buildup." Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth had barred him. New Haven American Legionnaires had bellowed at tolerant Yale President Charles Seymour for not barring him. All this set the stage for more fun than Yale men had had since old George Gundelfinger issued his first tract (in 1923) on "Why the Bulldog Is Losing His Grip...
Having twice debated Jay Lovestone, and also other, Communists, I long to joust with Earl...
Olum called attention to recent actions by other universities limiting academic freedom, chiefly at Chicago, where students are not allowed to criticize the administration directly, and at Ohio State, where a Marxist club was banned. Mentioning the refusal by the University to allow Earl Browder to use a lecture hall for a speech, he remarked that academic freedom was especially threatened during wartime...