Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ugly smears of unfavorable publicity seem to be Harvard's inevitable lot as a result of the Browder affair. This time it will be the liberal press to start up aghast at a "suppression of free speech" by the nation's ancient stronghold of academic liberalism. The mere fact that Browder has been denied the use of a University platform will be enough for most earnest advocates of civil rights. Others of liberal persuasion will see in this a part of the current Dies-ignited red-baiting campaign. The total effect is another black eye for Harvard--and Harvard undergraduates...
Actually, the undoctored facts of the case argue that the question of free speech is not involved here. The decision seems to have revolved around an entirely different issue. To conclude that liberal rights are being sabotaged, it is necessary to poke around beneath the facts and to emerge with some dubious interpretations. It is necessary to attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading...
...subsequent indictment. The case of the John Reed Society is considerably more convincing than the case of Mr. Greene. There is even a precedent which denies the stand taken by the University. In 1920, Norman Thomas--on trial before the New Yorks courts for violating a city speech ordinance,--was nevertheless granted permission to speak at Harvard...
Four days before the scheduled talk in the Union. Thomas was arrested for violating a city ordinance involving the question of free speech in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. The University did not withdraw its permission allowing Thomas to speak and he spoke in the Union on the night of October 18, after his trial at Mt. Vernon...
...moving picture "Grande Illusion" in the New Lecture Hall on Friday afternoon and will follow this up with an announcement of the results of its peace poll which has been conducted throughout the week. Bert Witt, secretary of the American Student Union, will also give a short speech, complimenting the Union on its stand in the crisis...