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Mather said that there is at present a bill submitted to the Massachusetts legislature which would restrain colleges from teaching about "atheistic communism." But there is a difference, Mather pointed out, between teaching certain doctrines, so that they may be compared with others, and advocating them. "In the market place of opinion," Mather said, "democracy will always win providing there is freedom of discussion...
...achieve this end. Though Princeton was clearly the superior team, and was never headed, in allegedly fifth down Tiger field goal created an element of discussion. And when three of Harvard's best players sustained injuries, one from a blow on the head, the effect was hardly to restrain the animosity which the opposing stands felt for each other...
Dean Lowe, who knew, wasn't saying. Said he: "If by inadvertence I let slip something which may conceivably give a clue to [the donor's] identity, I beg you most earnestly not to take advantage of it, but to restrain those detective instincts which tend to be stimulated in some of us by such a challenge to our ingenuity...
Belter to Receive. Perhaps the Nizam could restrain Razvi and his fellow Moslem fanatics; but it is hard to tell what the Nizam will do next. Not much was known about the man upon whom the fate of India might depend. The 62-year-old Nizam has never traveled out of India, has left his domain only twice in the past 15 years-once to Delhi and once to Calcutta. Now he ventures out of his palace only on two occasions: each afternoon at 4:20 he visits his mother's tomb, every Friday he prays at a public...
...Communists called a convention for April 14, to form a "Korean People's Republic," i.e., an all-Korean Communist regime. Anybody was welcome who for one reason or another did not like the Americans or the free elections they proposed to conduct. U.S. occupation authorities did not restrain any Korean politicians who wanted to accept the invitation. Said one U.S. spokesman: "It might be a good thing for them to go north and find out for themselves how the Soviets operate on the home grounds...