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Remembering that meeting, we feel that Professor Morison's excellent counsel should be directed not only to the students but also to those members of the faculty who, in the desire to arouse emotion and forestall critical discussion, threaten to override the very principle which it is their duty to teach. Robert G. Davis, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English Philip C. Horton, Instructor in English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

...India Leopold Stennett Amery put the brightest of all faces on the historic stand of Greece. Said he: "If we can enable Greece to hold her own until we have disposed of the Italians in Egypt, we shall have secured for our armies a foothold from which we might threaten the flank of any German attack on Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Children of Socrates | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels... Their grip has tightened until they threaten to constrict all the life and vitally from the Harvard system . . . They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of a Harvard diploma...

Author: By Professor OF History. and C. H. Taylor, S | Title: Magazine Article Lauds Harvard's Role in Eliminating Notorious Tutoring Schools | 11/26/1940 | See Source »

...Epidemics threaten to sweep over Europe this winter with no institutions to check them as the League of Nations did at the end of the last war," Serge Fliegers, now doing graduate work at the University and formerly a European war correspondent, stated last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPIDEMIC KILLS OFF ITALIANS IN NICE, WAR CORRESPONDENT HERE STATES | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...fragile thing," a delicate compromise between privilege and the masses. But "a democracy that is to wage totalitarian war must end economic and social privilege as the price of victory." With a serene twinkle Professor Laski views the dilemma of the middle classes. On one hand, the fascists threaten them; on the other, so do the masses. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revolution by Consent | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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