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...Outlook, soberest of U. S. reviews, craved the indulgence of its readers for any tardiness with which they might receive Vol. 138, No. 11, dated Nov. 12, explaining that No. 11 had been withheld from the presses until Nov. 5 that the editors might "interpret the verdict of the voters on the Presidential campaign." When No. 11 reached its readers, its opening words were these...
...Editor's note: The writer of the above communication, whose name is withheld by request, is the wife of a prominent Harvard graduate and sister of a member of the Yale football team...
...even granting the Widener authorities to be acting within their rights, the unfortunate effect of a successful censorship is to defeat its own purpose. Information withheld with the nursing of lips seems invariably to attain an unjustified rapacity of circulation. Filth which is innocuous on the printed page becomes effective through being spread by word of mouth. The excitement aroused by censorship creates a volume of curiosity far greater than the salacious matter would of itself admit. The very effectiveness of censorship destroys its intended effect...
Boccaccio and Havelock Ellis are being withheld from the student body! So says the November Advocate in an angry and lengthy editorial on "the fussy and old-maidish policy of Widener Library in the matter of lending books to the undergraduates...
...claptrap to say. "We will give you the method of science, but we will not stoop so low as to give you any science." Evidently claptrap is contagious, for since when have educators withheld the material body of knowledge from their students? Under German tutelage, universities became gristmills of fact, which ground small the meal of knowledge and then stuffed it into the puppet's head. More recently, educators have begun to recognize that the method of searching out, weighing, and using the facts which life presents to men is more important than any encyclopedia of knowledge. The ability...