Word: frees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ugly smears of unfavorable publicity seem to be Harvard's inevitable lot as a result of the Browder affair. This time it will be the liberal press to start up aghast at a "suppression of free speech" by the nation's ancient stronghold of academic liberalism. The mere fact that Browder has been denied the use of a University platform will be enough for most earnest advocates of civil rights. Others of liberal persuasion will see in this a part of the current Dies-ignited red-baiting campaign. The total effect is another black eye for Harvard--and Harvard undergraduates...
Actually, the undoctored facts of the case argue that the question of free speech is not involved here. The decision seems to have revolved around an entirely different issue. To conclude that liberal rights are being sabotaged, it is necessary to poke around beneath the facts and to emerge with some dubious interpretations. It is necessary to attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading...
Greene, however, reiterated his faith in free speech and claimed that his action is in no way a violation of free speech at Harvard. Greene bases his decision on his opinion that a meeting at which the indicted Communist spoke is not "appropriate to the atmosphere and traditions of the University...
Lewis Mum ford, noted critic and author, will give a series of six free, public lectures at Harvard University this month on "The Backgrounds of American Architecture," beginning tomorrow night at New Lecture Hall, at 8 o'clock. The lectures are jointly sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and by the Harvard Committee on Extra-curricular Study of American Civilization...
From the 20, Spreyer free-kicked to Princeton, which, on a short series of ground gains, was back in scoring position. The touchdown tally resulted from a pass, Peters to Stanley, and a repetition of Penn and Dartmouth seemed inevitable...