Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who desire to learn more specifically the grounds of this resentment, there is opportunity tonight to hour at Ford Hall men whose scholarship and experience fit them to speak with authority on the subject. The meeting will be one of the first attempts in this vicinity to make a reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common...
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., professor in the Harvard Law School, will be the chief speaker at a public meeting to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in Ford Hall, Boston, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee. At that time several prominent men will speak against the censorship of plays and books which is at present creating so much comment...
This evening at the Union at 8 o'clock a Business School Club Smoker will be held. It is intended primarily for first year men, and President Lowell and Dean Donham will speak. This is the first of a series of entertainments projected by the Business School this year...
Captain B. B. Wygant, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, declined to speak of the Shearer situation specifically, because he knew nothing about it excepting what he read in the newspapers, the frequent errors of whose reporting make him hesitate to commit himself. However, on the general subject of the proposed naval equality of Great Britain and the United States, Captain Wygant said that naval officers in general were in favor of any plan that would produce peace, "but perhaps naval officers more than others realize the sacrifices that are entailed by not being ready when any emergency may arise...
Professor Doriot declared his incompetence to speak impartially of the Shearer case because he approached it with a tremendous admiration for Sir William Wiseman, who is an intimate friend of his, but his full statement follows...