Word: mr
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with amazement and with a sense of incredulity" that we read yesterday's communication in the CRIMSON entitled "An Indignant Challenge." While we hold no brief for Mr. Humphries, and would 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...
...entirely different light is thrown on the matter when a man is invited to speak in a University building who is wholly and entirely unfitted to address a body of students. Here again, no one will deny the "right" to extend the invitation. It is not that Mr. Humphries looks favorably on certain phases of Soviet government. Many of us may see its good points. But the fact is that Mr. Humphries is not the sort of man who should be encouraged to speak in Harvard halls, nor are his methods suited to give his audience a true conception...
...ordination of various activities of the schools and colleges of the country "in the name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt" is the purpose of the new Roosevelt-America League. Mr. John Finley has made public a statement which outlines the plans and program of this league whose object is to perpetuate "the spirit which this extraordinary man incarnated." Part of the program includes summer camps in Roosevelt's "old west...
...Mr. Finley's official statement is as follows...
...Roosevelt America League, for which a plan has been drawn up by a committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, consisting of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard; President MacCracken of Vassar; Dr. James Sullivan, New York State Historian; Mr. H. S. Weet, Superintendent of Schools of Rochester; Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education; Mr. Hermann Hagedorn, Secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and myself, as chairman, calls for a co-ordination in the name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt of the physical, intellectual and civic activities of the schools and colleges...