Word: expounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freedo of speech will not be the point under argument, as was the case in the proceedings against City College of New York, when the latter based an unsuccessful defense of its Russell appointment on the assertion that Russell should be permitted to expound his moral views from a lecture platform...
...academic bodies, and their right to make their own appointments. This, according to your headline, is exactly the defense contemplated by the Corporation of Harvard. Neither the Board of Higher Education nor the faculty of City College at any time made the claim that I "should be permitted to expound my moral views from a lecture platform." On the contrary, they stated repeatedly and with emphasis that my moral views had no possible relevance to the subjects I had been engaged to teach...
Even if I were permitted to expound my moral views in the classroom, my own conscience would not allow me to do so, since they have no connection with the subjects which it is my profession to teach, and I think that the classroom should not be used as an opportunity for propaganda on any subject...
...further held that "even if I were permitted to expound my moral views in the class room, my own conscience would not allow me to do so, since they have no connection with the subjects which it is my province to teach...
Freedom of speech will not be the point under argument, as was the case in the proceedings of Mrs. Jean Kay against City College of New York, when the latter based an unsuccessful defense of its Russell appointment on the assertion that Russell should be permitted to expound his moral views from a lecture platform...