Word: olum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olum's letter to the Crimson has convinced me that any respect which he professes for the principles of free speech has been overshadowed by the delusion that he is Harvard's sole standard-bearer of American civil liberties...
...Olum as chairman been acquainted with events leading up to the rally, he would have been aware that Mr. Pitts wished to speak in favor of the John Reed Society's stand against the University. Mr. Pitts in a Crimson letter expressed his complete sympathy with the Browder protest...
Furthermore, Mr. Pitts approached Mr. Olum before the meeting with a civil request to be allowed to speak from a printed paper which he offered to show. He was flatly refused...
...Thus Mr. Olum's claim that Pitts was engaged in an effort to destroy the success of the meeting is a misstatement...
...Olum has outdone his preceptor. Alfred E. Gras...