Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torn. For six days doctors did what they could, finally told him they would have to amputate his leg just above the knee. "O. K.," said Don Herring, "go ahead." Next day he listened to the play-by-play account of the game in which his teammates nosed out Harvard...
...liberal guns of the nation are being levelled upon Harvard. This "great and traditionally liberal university"--as the National Advisory Council on Academic Freedom ironically termed it--has been charged on every hand with turning reactionary and with limiting academic freedom. After all, Mr. Greene could have expected no other effect when he made his decision. Most of his critics are too earnest in their bias to see the true nature and logic of the case...
Consequently, it must be reiterated that the question of free speech is not involved if facts are taken at their face value. Browder was granted permission to speak at Harvard on a certain date. Meanwhile, he was indicted on criminal charges of passport invasion; so his speaking permission was revoked. From this it should be clear that Browder, for the purposes of the case, had a dual personality: that of the Communist spokesman and that of the passport violator. He was excluded from a Harvard assembly in his second capacity only. If Mr. Greene was sincere--and the burden...
...decision made by its trouble-shooter and clean-up man. Such a reversal is dictated not only by the poorness of Mr. Greene's argument but also by the expediency of calling off the dogs. A thousand years of logical argumentation would fail to convince many people that Harvard--by Mr. Greene's action--is not squelching the Communist view of affairs. They will be mollified only by a reissuance of Browder's speaking permit. Indeed, if the Corporation persists in the course chosen thus far, there may be ground to suspect that some of the glibly-flung accusations...
...November issue the Harvard Progressive maintains a precise balance between local ware and the world's wars by printing two articles on Harvard problems and two on the world's affairs, while a fifth occupies both territories by means of an examination of Harvard's transition toward the martial spirit in 1914-1915. As a whole the issue reaches a high standard both in the breadth and significance of its material and in the vigorous fashion in which it is presented...