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Charges made by three Harvard graduates that pamphlets mailed to delegates and professors at the Harvard Tercentenary were destroyed were denied by University officials yesterday. The pamphlets entitled "Walled in the Tomb" were directed against President-emeritus Lowell for his stand in the Sacco-Vanzetti case and were mailed by Varian Fry '30, Quincy Howe '21, and Gardner Jackson...
...Sacco and Vanzetti issue is, as far as any of us are concerned, dead. It was a controversy which expert jurists and politicians shied from settling eight years ago, and can scracely be expected to set the public back on its heels today. The motives of the pamphlet's sponsors, therefore, can only be described as slanderous and publicity-seeking. These men, in the name of decency, should have directed their resentment against President-Emeritus Lowell as a private citizen, not as one of the honored heads of a University in the midst of celebrating its birthday by entertaining...
...unscheduled and unofficial alumni Tercentenary activity was the publication of a pamphlet called Walled in This Tomb. A 29-page indictment of the action of A. Lawrence Lowell's committee in upholding the conviction of Sacco & Vanzetti in 1927, the pamphlet was signed by such Harvard Reds as Powers Hapgood, Heywood Broun, John Dos Passes, Stuart Chase, who wanted to know "what happened to the mental processes of ... Alma Mater's President...
Based obviously, if not candidly, upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the play has an absorbing story to tell. Mio Romagna's father has been executed for a murder which he did not commit. He was considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict him of a crime which was actually performed by a gangster. The injustice which society foisted upon the father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith...
...superiority" of a community which suffers the most ruthless and undiscriminating literary and dramatic censorship in America--this is the riddle which Mr. Beebe skilfully and sympathetically presents. He shows Boston the home of the Mathers, of Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, and Boston the scene of the-Sacco-Vanzetti riots, the John L. Sullivan fights, the James Michael Curley campaigns. He pictures the irreproachable dignity of State Street and the spectacle of the world's most notorious Tea Party...