Word: speak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When four New York City colleges banned author Howard Fast from speaking on their premises in December, 1947, they touched off a dispute over who may speak when and where in New York universities, a dispute which even now is disturbing the Brooklyn College campus...
Through what Columbia Provost Albert C. Jacobs called "administrative oversight," Fast was given permission to speak on the campus on October...
...months later Provost Jacobs said Fast would not be allowed to make a scheduled speech before the P.C.A. on December 12. Columbia's policy, Jacobs said, was not to allow men under sentence or indictment to speak at the University...
...large number of Columbia groups protested this decision. The P.C.A. called it a "complete break with the liberal traditions of American education," and noted that Professor Lyman Bradley, convicted with Fast for contempt, had been allowed to speak at Columbia in the summer...
...another occasion last year the public Relations office scheduled an information broadcast, where an economics instructor was to speak for several minutes on the Taft-Hartley Act. It was reported that the Public Relations office asked the instructor to change his script because it was not objective enough. The speaker refused and so the speech was cancelled...