Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speaker as interesting as Mr. Humphries is found to sustain the other side, we refrain from attributing to him unpopular sentiments about American government; from indignant letters demanding his suppression; from veiled editorials suggesting that he is "not the sort of man"; from abusing him indiscriminately as a "subtle propagandist" and a "credulous sentimentalist;" and from the argumentum ad hominem generally. Apart from any question of courtesy or dignity, this sort of thing is an insult to the intelligence of the University. If a man is lying to call him a liar is a waste of time which might better...
There is at present no definite counter-propagandist organization in the University. One is needed to handle the routine of this work. ROBERT CHAMBERS...
...Harvard professors urge upon their students views of moot questions and pet doctrines well within the dictionary meaning of the term--always indicating to the class, of course, that the matter is in the field of contention. All the speakers mentioned in the list above apparently were considered not propagandists. Neither was Captain Ian Hay Beith, whom the CRIMSON accurately referred to as having "been sent to this country by the British Government to explain Britain's part in the war," who was permitted to speak in Sanders Theatre on December 11, 1916 (the meeting open to the public, tickets...
...been the traditional and iron-clad policy of the Corporation to allow no propagandist to speak in a College building. Mrs. Skeffington is considered a propagandist. In accordance with a rule established some years before she came to this country, a rule established entirely independent of Ireland or England or the war, the place of her address was shifted to the Union. The latter is the customary meeting place of the University, where all opinions may be voiced unofficially...
...literature so far collected may be divided roughly into three groups: first, the official publications of the various belligerents; second, accounts of the war written from a non-partisan standpoint; and third, the great mass of distinctly prejudiced literature, ranging from the numerous foreign newspapers down to the frakly propagandist book and pamphlets...