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...Boston Transcript in its Thursday night's issue asked a fair question which is entitled to a fair answer. After quoting at some length Mr. Harold I. Laski's remarks to the Boston Policemen's Union in Fay Hall Wednesday night, as reported in the Boston Post, the Transcript says editorially...
...much to ask, as we believe, of the governing bodies of Harvard and Yale, whether the Harold I. Laski, who addressed last light's meeting at Fay Hall is an instructor in or lecturer upon American Government or Soviet Government. The parents of the sons entrusted to his tutelage are entitled to know. The followers from Maine to California of straight Americanism will, we think, insist upon knowing...
Ostensibly the Transcript is asking for information. As regards his work at Harvard, a glance at the Elective Pamphlet shows two undergraduate courses given by Mr. Laski--Political Theory and English History Since 1688, and two research courses in Recent Political Ideas. None of these concern themselves with American government, and treats the Soviet principle only as a part of the general history of political ideas. We do not agree with Mr. Laski's remarks before the Policemen's Union, nor do we believe his presence there good taste. But we feel equally that any attack on the right...
...recent editorial in the "CRIMSON" mentioned Mr. Laski's remark as to the right of any and all labor to organize as it wished: and by a remarkable feat of legerdemain transformed this opinion into a mere dislike for the person of Commissioner Curtis. Although I do not know Mr. Laski personally, I feel certain that it will be a very shocking thing for him to find himself so completely whitewashed into orthodoxy, despite his manifest pride in maintaining his bizarre views...
...What Mr. Laski meant to say was undoubtedly that all labor has the right to organize as it will; and having spent the time and labor necessary to write a very dry and scholarly book completely setting forth this view, it must be rather discouraging to find himself so completely reversed. Whether Mr. Laski is right or not is open to discussion; but let us at least grant him the privilege of being "different." HAROLD M. FLEMING...