Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Neither the number nor the length of our months is governed by the moon or any natural law which means that the months may be changed as the country sees fit. In this new form the months would be named as followed: January, February, Liberty, March...
...French Government has asked P. G. Lopaulle, IL., to propose a program of study especially adapted to American students in French universities, particularly in law, sociology, or economics. Mr. Lepaulle will be at Langdell Hall, Center, on Wednesday evening. December17th, at 7.30 o'clock, and would like to meet at that time any Harvard students who are thinking of studying in French universities, so that he may receive their suggestions as to courses of study which would interest them...
However, the superficial denunciations contained in the letter are less astounding when one reads further that the present government of Russia is a "Government with which the United States is internally and externally at war." Here is a worse error, which law students especially should not make. The United States has never declared war on Russia. If a de facto war or blockade exists it is clearly unconstitutional and illegal. It should be the object of every patriotic citizen to secure the enforcement of the law...
...oppose the introduction of Bolshevism into the country by any means, constitutional or otherwise, we feel that the framers of the Constitution of the United States, if they could have taken the communication seriously, must have had Freudian nightmares on recollecting their own insignificant words: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech or of press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble...
...promote the purposes for which free speech was instituted and is now supported. Legally, these excesses cannot be prevented without imposing some sort of powerful censorship; and such censorship could not be applied by the government without destroying the liberty which can be so beneficial. Not prohibited by the law, propaganda creeps in and is accepted by many as an almost essential part of freedom of speech. Men may talk on paper-dolls and tin soldiers, but that cannot be set among the successful results of toleration...