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...moved to protest against compulsory training because we have seen what compulsion has done in so democratic a country as England. We note the fate of the several thousand men whose consciences will not allow them to become part of a military machine whose purpose is the destruction of life. We recognize that conscription laws usually provide for conscientious scruples, but unfortunately the men who are appointed to judge the validity of these scruples are either military men or civilians of a military mind. They are unable to comprehend the workings of a conscience different from their own. These British...
...professor upon promotion to a full professorship advances from $3,500 to $4,000. Every five years he receives $500 more until be reaches $5,500, the highest salary in the teaching force. As there are very few full professors less than 40 years of age, it will be seen that a teacher in Harvard cannot expect with normal promotion to earn $4,000 until he is over...
Under the weight of all this it might be expected that the submerged pacifists would be seen no more. But deluded as they are they will in all likelihood continue their agitation. Probaby they will do so principally outside the University where there exists a less favored but considerable body of citizens whose sense of obligation to their country is not so lively because, perhaps, they feel that they have less from that country. If the pacifist propaganda makes headway among such sections of public opinion--as it shows signs of doing--it will mean that something bigger and more...
...Workshop will be the first to produce on this continent this play, which was considered such a masterpiece when seen in Denmark, Norway, Germany and England. The American-Scandinavian Foundation was very anxious to have it staged in this country, and for this and several other reasons, Professor Baker has chosen it for this production Sigur...
...error, announced it as open to the public). Even so, the hall was refused on the ground that this was "propaganda." Keeping out "propaganda" was attempted in 1911 by the exclusion of Mrs. Pankhurst. Whatever the merits or demerits of Mrs. Pankhurst's opinions might be, this policy was seen to be objectionable, and was apparently abandoned--witness the suffrage speaker's noted move. I am not aware that it has been revived till the Skeffington case...