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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to fight on common ground. That there should be some assembly whose function would be to discuss and criticize matters that come up for censorship, submitting at least an advisory opinion to the body in which the actual power is vested, has become manifest. It is probably too much to hope that the meeting tonight will lead directly to the formation of such an assembly. It should, however, serve forcibly to bring to the attention of those in authority that the present method of censorship from behind closed doors has become repugnant to the community which they intend...
Cohen wanted to find out what the police would do if he distributed his circulars, and now he knows; they object very much to having circulars distributed, and have promised him a summons for next Thursday. He will doubtless get a nominal penalty, and the Transcript will come out with a benign editorial to the effect that Cohen is a bad boy but that time will teach him discretion. So Cohen will find himself not a martyr, but merely a "source of innocent merriment", which is not an agreeable position for a crusader...
...reassert our liberties and it is inappropriate. I think, for the CRIMSON or for anyone else to assume an amused and detached attitude toward the slightly ridiculous scuffle in Harvard Square. It is better for our self-respect to protest, instead of smiling when liberties which once meant much to us, are taken away; and we have not yet given our souls over to the custody of the police, whatever the appearances may be. Sincerely, Brinckerhoff Jackson...
...menaces to organized society, and deserving of immediate exportation. It's tactics were denounced on every side. Yet those familiar with the labor conditions in the northwest, both before the war and of recent years, cannot deny that the situation, from the point of view of the worker, is much improved. In almost every said of large scale industry, conditions of living, wages, and hours of employment have been bettered for the working...
...Vagabond this morning is particularly attracted to Professor Murdock's lecture at 11 o'clock in Sever 11. The subject, "John Donne," perhaps one of the most controversial figures in English literature, is one on which it seems impossible to acquire too much information...