Word: propagandistic
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...Harvard Student Liberal Club has more than once laid itself open to the charge of being radical. An unfortunate selection of speakers has often given the impression that their meetings were organized more in the spirit of the propagandist than of the liberal. That this has been the result of accident rather than policy is shown in the care which the club has devoted to the plans for the Intercollegiate Liberal Conference which begins today. Scrupulous adherence to the purpose of the organization, "the cultivation of an open mind and the development of an informal student opinion" is exhibited...
...meeting a committee of eight was elected to serve as an organizing committee, of which Robert Wormser '22 is secretary. In choosing a foundation on which to build it was decided that the new organization be non-propagandist, that it be tied to no "isms," that its purpose be to induce the college citizen to think on the problems which confront America, without, however, presuming to tell him what to think, and that it should originate from the students themselves and be conducted by students insofar as that is practicable...
...Flume" is "a matter of a few weeks at the most"; in short, he is the same man who has been so instrumental in conducting a campaign of slander against Italy and anything Italian. I deeply regret that the CRIMSON is humming in union with such an insidious propagandist...
Despite the wide divergence in their demands, the radical and the reactionary desire the same thing. They insist that the teacher become a propagandist and that the college become a school for a particular theory. Time was when such schools existed and students traveled from one to the other to get a universal point of view. They were the schools of Greece and of the middle Ages. We flatter ourselves that we have advanced in many thing, among them--education. But it is beside the point to question whether this is a better or worse system. The fact remains that...
...must consider itself among the foremost institutions of a genuine democracy--never of any class--and, as such, must radiate common sense and illuminate the truth of human relationships as formulated in our governmental programs. The other must consider himself a medium of knowledge to his students--never a propagandist--and, as such, much present all significant conceptions to his classes. In this way, and in this way only, can they do their part,--and a particularly important part it is, in building a safe and sane democracy and in stabilizing and perpetuating the abiding principles of free government...