Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement the Corporation reaffirmed its policy "of permitting all views to be presented at meetings of students held in Harvard buildings," and went on to say that the John Reed Society could have "another member of the Communist Party speak as soon as they desired...
Although impartial observers claim that over ninety per cent of contemporary newspaper publishers never went out for the Crimson, the fact remains that no less a man than James Bryant Conant (Crimson '13) has been heard to say that--for a certain type of man--the Crimson is more valuable than any regular curricular work. It is unfortunate that Harvard's president never went on to specify what certain type of man he was referring to; however, after delving deep into the depths of its morgue the Crimson board finally is able to clarify this statement...
...skill and economy had much to do with it. A firm Irish Yankee, he was amazed to find Russian engineers behaving like poets, actors, priests and revolutionaries (Dostoevsky graduated from the Imperial Engineering School in 1843). He proudly refused a commission in the Tsar's army, refused to say "Your Majesty" to Nicholas. Nicholas found him indispensable...
...Buddhism, of the Bible in Hebrew, of the nature of reality, and of death, which at length is no longer feared. The journal ends in the aftermath of a gentle and casual dream: "Perhaps we shall be talking just like that when we awake from this life. Who could say that all our waking life was not a dream...
...that Browder, for the purposes of the case, had a dual personality: that of the Communist spokesman and that of the passport violator. He was excluded from a Harvard assembly in his second capacity only. If Mr. Greene was sincere--and the burden of proof rests upon those who say he was not--then no one has denied the right of a Communist to speak at Harvard. If Tom Girdler had been indicted for income tax evasion pending a lecture engagement here, he too would have been denied the right to speak...