Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main argument in the Bertrand Russell controversy revolves around the "free speech issue." It should be remembered that Harvard as an educational institution has as its duty not the maintenance of an open forum for everybody with eccentric ideas. This is a propagandistic function and those who wish to indoctrinate special issues should hire a hall. Harvard has a higher purpose: to lead its students, by a consideration of unbiased thoughts presented by men of moral integrity, to make up their minds on controversial issues. This is the educational function...
...Bertrand Russell is a propagandist. This is freely testified in all his writings and naive expressions of scientific rationalism. That he is of low moral integrity is amply demonstrated...
...Note: The University has made clear that the issue is not freedom of speech, but the power of the Corporation to appoint as lecturers whatever scholars it chooses. Bertrand Russell was not chosen because Harvard wishes to give freedom of speech to "eccentric ideas" about domestic relations. He was selected because he is a foremost scholar in the field of logic. He is not to lecture on the relations between male and female but on the relations between logic and language...
...ANGELES--The Rev. I. R. Wall, Baptist minister, filed suit today against officials of the University of California at Los Angeles to force the ouster of Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, from his professorship...
...There is such a thing as mental leprosy as well as physical leprosy. As the physically afflicted are segregated from society to prevent their spreading the disease, so Bertrand Russell must be prevented from teaching at Harvard," Dorgan concluded...