Word: notted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"The college man can be trusted to sift the wheat from the chaff, for, if I know him at all, he does not believe everything he is told by any means. If he is not allowed to hear any radical ideas in the university, he will meet them in the...
"Education is not merely a matter of pouring in accepted doctrines, but rather of making the student's brain work. As we do not attempt to limit the reading of the radical book in the university, so we should not restrict the radical thinker of great ability, who at least...
"And, after all, the university gains the greatest support if it has in its faculty the greatest, the most fearless men--men who are not afraid to give voice to their beliefs. Personally, I think that the Endowment Fund has profited much by the universal realization that here at Harvard...
Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical. If you have no doubt of your premises or your power and want a certain result with all your heart you naturally express your wishes in law and sweep away all opposition. To allow opposition by speech seems to...
"Through personal relations with graduates of the Harvard University Law Schools and observations of their work and achievements, I have been deeply impressed by its character as a national institution in the broadest sense and by the powerful influence that its Faculty and Alumni have had and can have upon...