Word: timing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusing to reconsider their prior action, the Corporation stated yesterday. "Since it is reported that his trial will take place at an early date, the Corporation has decided that no application for him to speak will be considered at this time...
...general, the Corporation defended the wisdom of retaining the power to withhold permission for use of the buildings as "essential and proper." Pointing out that refusal will be rare, the Corporation concludes, ". . . attention is again called to the fact that Harvard has at no time adopted the policy of refusing permission to a speaker because of his party affiliations or his political views...
Your editorial of Saturday scoffing at the Committee for Academic Freedom to be sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa is a native piece of self-delusion. At the present time, there is more need than ever for the consolidation of all forces for the defense of civil liberties, within and without academic walls. The national organization of Phi Beta Kappa was forced to recognize this last year when it launched its campaign for the defense of intellectual freedom. For it is not simply "yapping minorities," as the editorial maintains, who are attacking the rights of students and teachers and labor organizations...
...forming such committees for defense of academic freedom, which may be interpreted as the freedom to study as well as the freedom of students and teachers to speak their minds. Issues enough are at hand. The Industrial Mobilization Plan, which would conscript youth for work in factories in war time, is in the hands of the President: there has been a steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady an in crease of funds for armaments; and right now the Dies Committee is engaging in its campaign to slander and disorganize...
Explaining the purpose of the talks the Reverend Frederic B. Kellogg, who will manage them, said; "A considerable number of undergraduates have expressed a desire to discerns questions of religion informally with visiting clergymen and so if has been suggested that meetings be held from time to time in the common terms of the various college houses. Men of all denominations will speak and all members of the University are welcome...