Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consequent upon its practice are obvious. Under the policy Professor Holcombe advocates, universities would be faced with the difficult and dangerous task of deciding when students have kept "within the law." This task is in no sense fitting to a university, which cannot be considered a competent judge of legal matters. More important, however, is the fact that a student's activities outside the campus are solely his own affair. If he chooses to run the risk of participating in violent demonstrations on questions political or otherwise, he must expect to find himself involved in difficulties for which...
Were college authorities to "stand by" student agitators in the nebulous twilight zone between legal right and wrong, the encouragement to radical elements would inevitably have serious consequences and draw universities into a sphere wholly beyond their province...
After two and a half years of postponement the Drinker-Emerson case comes before a Boston court today. It will be decided upon purely legal grounds in reference to patent laws but for the student and professional man it has ethical and scientific ramifications with which the courts will be unconcerned. To quote from a scientific journal the question involved: "Shall universities allow their professors to use for private gain scientific and medical discoveries made under university auspices on tax-free premises?" is a pertinent problem for institutions of higher learning and research...
...gain! Some discoveries must from their nature be patented, but they should not be handed over to individuals or institutions to enrich an individual or a corporation. Further, such taking out of patents discourages free interplay and cooperation between scientists and makes improvement and progress a difficult thing. No legal barrier should stand in the way of human welfare, scientific knowledge, or general enlightenment...
...excited leaseholders, landowners, operators, pipeliners, refiners and their swarming lawyers the Federal chairman explained: "The State will determine what is legal oil. We are going to keep all illegal oil out of interstate commerce by stopping it at the State line...