Word: speech
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Frank: "Despite some picturesque and vigorous editorial comment to the contrary, neither the present existence nor the future guarantee of free speech for students and teachers at the University of Wisconsin is in any way involved in the Dora Russell episode...
...morning bath in the bathroom instead of in a glass tub before a mixed audience is not an infringement of the freedom of bathing; and my advice respecting the proposed lecture of Mrs. Russell no more affects the liberalism of the University of Wisconsin or its loyalty to free speech than the Hottentot alphabet-if there is one-affects the selling price of Wisconsin cheese...
...whose liberalism goes beyond emotionalism and a hunger for headlines needs argument to prove the present existence and the future guarantee of free speech on the Wisconsin campus, I am sure of that. And no argument that I have yet seen convinces me that liberalism is inconsistent with at least a minimum sense of propriety...
...President Frank's self-defense was even worse than his first action. . . . He excused himself by saying the matter was one of decorum rather than free speech...
...Manhattan, Mrs. J. Stuart Tompkins read of Jacqueline, was piqued into bragging of Boulderwall, her Great Dane house dog. Never permitted to bark, Boulderwall's lips have learned to fashion sounds to the pattern of human speech. Intelligent, she answers simple questions in a voice that is clear, and high-pitched...