Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the John Reed Society and the Committee to Save Harvard Education were simultaneously turned down by the Corporation on Monday, they were stymied by what is in effect the University's highest court of appeal...
...question of a November twenty-third Thanksgiving, the unanimity of the College is striking and especially symbolized by the historic rapprochement between the Crimson and the Lampoon. Little room for disagreement can now remain. Considering the issue more vital than the John Reed Society protest, the magazine editors have invited Mr. Browder to attack this curtailment of religious freedom from the steps of their Mount Auburn Street building. Perhaps it can be considered fortunate that infringement of speech and religion have occurred together. In one telling blow, delivered to a crowd that should block every street from Plympton to Dunster...
Last night a meeting was held by the John Reed Society, in defense of free speech; and as is the case in most Socialist or Communist societies or nations, no laws of the right of expression of personal opinion were observed...
...main speaker of the evening, Mr. Lamont said that the University was stifling free speech by Communist leaders, and refused to consider that the University merely refuses to hear these doctrines from the mouths of alleged criminals. He claimed full support of Browder's speaking for the John Reed Society among the alumni, which is ridiculous. And all the while he was claiming suppression of Communist or Socialist doctrine by the University, he interspersed glowing pictures of the Socialist State, and even went so far as to hold out alluring promises of $5,000 a year to its members...
...John Reed '10, in whose honor the Society was named, was one of the world's best known Communists. As a war correspondent in Russia, he joined with Lenin and Trotsky, fighting during the Bolshevist Revolution. When Reed was killed in action, the Russians buried him in the Kremlin...