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...London British feminists crowded to a banquet in honor of Miss Christabel Pankhurst, pioneer militant suffragist, recently returned from Canada. Excerpts from ensuing speeches...
Miss Christabel Pankhurst, evangelist: "At a Presbyterian conference, said I: 'Because of the immorality of the fiction of our day I do not see how girls have the slightest chance to remain good...
Young Harvard, as reported in the CRIMSON, does not seem to share Miss Pankhurst's feeling that religion is the hope of the world. The CRIMSON opposes the building of a chapel as a war memorial on the ground that the college religious service no longer plays any part in the lives of a vast majority of students (which is true enough), nor is likely to become any more important in the future. It thinks a neglected chapel would be an ignominious tribute. If thinks a building which will be "a constant, active reminder of the ideal which it represents...
...throwing and coercion reveal a laudable fighting spirit, but unfortunately reveal also as little tact as the blindest radicalism: Pankhurst's window smashing, Irish guerilla warfare or I. W. W. bomb plots. In accepting the challenge the college man loses all the advantage which his education gives him, he drops his foil of polite discussion for the cudgel of insult and calumny...
...have been open only to members of the University (although some newspapers, through their own error, announced it as open to the public). Even so, the hall was refused on the ground that this was "propaganda." Keeping out "propaganda" was attempted in 1911 by the exclusion of Mrs. Pankhurst. Whatever the merits or demerits of Mrs. Pankhurst's opinions might be, this policy was seen to be objectionable, and was apparently abandoned--witness the suffrage speaker's noted move. I am not aware that it has been revived till the Skeffington case...