Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BANNED QUAKER TALKS HERE...
Cecil Hinshaw, banned earlier this fall from speaking at Ohio State University will address the Liberal Union next Wednesday in the Winthrop Junior Common Room at 8 p.m. Hinshaw, a Quaker pacifist and member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, will appear with McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government on the subject of Power Pacifism, and Peace...
...creative patterns of social and spiritual responsibility." And "the American heritage is the Protestant heritage . . . Protestants came to America, settled America, made America after the likeness of their own ideal." Among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 34 were Episcopalians, 13 Congregationalists, six Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Quaker and one Roman Catholic. Before affixing his signature, each man bowed his head in prayer...
...Rugg or and, the faculty and the students thought they had an issue worth fighting for. When President Bevis made the first use of his new powers by banning Dr. Cecil Hinshaw, a Quaker and former president of William Penn College, the whole state of Ohio began scrambling into...
...Bevis' first step has been to deny a Quaker pacifist the right to speak at Ohio. Perhaps Dr. Bevis does not like Quaker pacifists. But to infer that the Quaker's purpose was "the overthrow of our government" is palpably ridiculous. The "overthrow" idea, however, was the trustees' criterion for curbing freedom of speech, and it was thus what Dr. Bevis had to adhere to in his ban. As a state institution, it is natural that Ohio's trustees and Dr. Bevis should try to determine what constitutes inciting to overthrow. But it is not their business...