Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overflow crowd which turned out for Professor James B. Munn's introductory speech last Thursday, it was necessary to move to the larger confines of Emerson...
Roosevelt's Speech...
...last Friday's speech, Mr. Conant pointed to two factors which were obstructing Harvard's present course. The first was intolerance, and with a veiled reference to the Massachusetts Teacher's Oath Law, the President gave it to be clearly understood that Harvard would continue to oppose every move which threatened to hinder liberal instruction...
Thus Mr. Conant's speech is in keeping with three hundred years of College history, and his reactions are such as one might expect from a Harvard president. The University, while prepared to fight every attempt of a bigoted few to muzzle the tradition of liberal instruction will cooperate as always with sincere government efforts to advance the cause of learning...
...petition closes with a discussion of President Roosevelt's recent speech. In speaking of the present situation abroad, the President has, acording to the signers, "indicated to the peoples of all democratic nations the directious from which immediate threats of war and violence are coming. These threats are coming at this particular moment not from the country while has adopted a socialist, political, and industrial position, but rather from the three countries which adhere to Nazi and Fascist militaristic ideolgies...