Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nearing was instructor and later professor of economics in the University of Pennsylvania. His public utterances, and his open support of ultra-radical movements led to a request for his withdrawal. In 1915 he was appointed to the position of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in Toledo University, which position he held until 1917, when he was again requested to resign. During the war he was on trial in the United States Court, for treasonable utterances contained in his pamphlet, "The Great Madness," but was acquitted. He is an accomplished orator and debater, and is at present...
...course of study of the growth of civilization is now used at Columbia University as a method of overcoming both the ultra-radicals and the ultra-conservatives. In the annual report of President Nicholas Murray Butler, he discusses this new course and states that he considers the cure for the world's radicalism of today lies rather in education than in more strenuous methods...
...right to assume that the only alternatives are radicalism and ultra conservatism, and that those who refuse to swallow either of these dogmas are in immediate danger of "falling off backwards" from the fence upon which our friend has conveniently placed them. We are confident that the liberals will share in the "wedding feast" to as great an extent as the "oil-bearing" conservatives. Today, true Americanism consists not in ridicule and vituperation, but in sincere striving for the co-operation of the elements that constitute American society. IRVING ROSENBLOOM '23. HENRY J. FRIENDLY...