Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real danger, the panel implied, was not so much in frankly technical schools, which for good or ill are indispensable to 20th Century life, as in "liberal" colleges whose curricula have been invaded by petty specializations of all sorts. Said one speaker: "The modern university catalogue, with courses in everything from prenatal care to funeral directing, looks like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue." Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, summed up: "To know one's age, and nothing else, is useless. We must be able to criticize and judge it ... Otherwise we risk being captives...
...resolution against Addington and his kind. The resolution, which Governor Beauford Jester promised to sign, "authorized, instructed and empowered" the presidents of state colleges and universities to investigate and expel "all or any persons found to be disloyal to this nation." It was not exactly a law, explained House Speaker Durwood Manford, "but stronger than a suggestion." Cried Texas University Footballer "Peppy" Blount, a member of the house and one of the chief backers of the bill: "Academic freedom, huh? The only isms we want in Texas are Texasism and Americanism...
...Speaker at the conference will include: Zochariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law; John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature; William A. Jackson, Professor of Bibliography and Assistant Librarian in charge of Houghton Library; Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University library; and presidents and librarians from Stanford University, University of California, and Amherst, Vanderbilt, and Oberlin Colleges...
Thomas A. Dorgan, clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court and the first speaker in favor of the bill, promptly teed off against Harvard and Harvard men in general. He censured Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 for minimizing the danger of communist influence in this country in a speech before the Harvard Club of New Jersey...
...Uniform Divorce Law" will go under discussion at a Law School Forum at 4:15 p.m, today in the Langdoll Hall Courtroom. The sole speaker will be Reginald Hober Smith...