Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...willingness to make an exception and admit all members of the Union, the meeting was held in a small room in the Union; and so, as it happened, no harm was done beyond having to change the announcements and to turn away a few would be hearers. The reason that the Corporation threw the Verein upon the kindness of the Union was that "college halls are not to be used for propaganda...
...sometimes said that Harvard cannot allow propagandists to speak in College buildings because the University will then appear to be backing the speaker. But is this the case? Harvard has allowed Ian Hay to speak in Sanders. Nobody intimated that Harvard was, for that reason, pro-Ally. But when, the next month, Harvard excludes Mrs. Skeffington, the Boston Herald relates the incident on its front page with the statement that "it was generally understood among the students that the action of the College authorities was taken because of Mrs. Skeffington's supposed anti-British sentiments." There was also a foul...
...perfect right to their opinions, and may justly exclude any or all speakers of whom they disapprove. Undergraduates, likewise, are free to hold their own ideas in so far as they do no harm to the regulations of the Faculty and the name of Harvard College. For this reason the Union is invaluable as a place where they may hear whomever they wish to hear, may hold meetings on a common footing, and debate on whatever questions they may choose...
...receptive attitude of mind is the chief essential of conversation. Possessing it, there is no reason why even specialists may not engage in conversation to the interest and advantage of either party. an attitude of intellectual receptivity is the really great thing which a college can give students. It is more than the essential quality of culture; it is the basis of civilization...
...small matter for a man to absolutely sever himself from his habitual mode of life--for any reason. These men are changing the whole course of their existence--in a manner that will change the course of their thoughts--for a cause which bears no close relation to their lives. They are following an inspiration. As such they are idealists, true to the cause of idealism in looking for a greater good beyond the present. In such sacrifices as they, and uncounted other young men in every nation, are making, may be seen something stupendous. War becomes more than...