Word: punished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rounds, selling "imported" cloth, encyclopedias, or sundry other articles, and incidentally trying to draw students into gambling games. In the past such persons have usually succeeded in getting out of Cambridge before the police have discovered their presence; if notified at once, the authorities could arrest the swindlers and punish them under...
...that his remarks were a trifle indiscreet, and that they offered offense to a certain racial and political element in this country; what of it? Admiral Sims was speaking as a private citizen, advancing his own ideas on the matter, and it is inconceivable that the Navy Department should punish him for so doing. If his words had disrupted official relations between England and America. It would have been another matter, but this they did not do; the fact is quite the contrary. Besides, what he said was a small thing in itself; if our so-called "yellow press...
...plan in vogue in Princeton the Senior Council has a more intimate jurisdiction over the daily life of the students and the general morale and tone of the university. Specifically, this jurisdiction in expressed in the control of the Honor System, with the power and obligation to punish all infractions of the System, in the prescription and maintenance of all campus customs, and in general jurisdiction over all matters concerning undergraduate life on the campus. Provisions are also made for the regulation of intra-collegiate athletics...
After discussing the very doubtful constitutionality of the law under which Debs was convicted. Professor Chafee continues: "Whatever be decided as to constitutionality, the Espionage Act prosecutions break with a great tradition in English and American law. Only once before has the United States tried to punish political crimes, and the Sedition Act of 1789"--there was a national emergency then, you remember--"with its maximum of two years' imprisonment wrecked the Federalist Party...
Probably there will be no contention made but that the Government ought to prevent injury to itself by prohibiting and punishing words which result in anarchy or crime. Whether the Government should go further and say that it will prohibit and punish the utterance of words which may possibly so result is another question, and it is the question which Harvard and Washington are going to debate...