Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Humphries, while inclined to find considerable good in the Soviet regime in Russia, in no sense advocated Bolshevism, but confined himself to an instructive narrative of what he actually saw during eleven months in Russia. During these months Mr. Humphries was successively employed by the United States Committee of Public Information, the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Humphries has had exceptional opportunities for observing conditions in Central Russia and Siberia, having been present at the signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty, at the disbanding of the famous Constituent Assembly...
...reaction on the outside public is a matter which should be well considered. The stretch between Wilfred Humphries being allowed to speak at Harvard and encouraged to speak at Harvard is not a long one. We do not wish it thought that the University believes in such tactics as his, for it is not true. We would not object to a sober and intellectual discussion of Russian affairs, both from admirers and critics, but we do object to unbalanced speeches from avowed propagandists...
...ordination of various activities of the schools and colleges of the country "in the name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt" is the purpose of the new Roosevelt-America League. Mr. John Finley has made public a statement which outlines the plans and program of this league whose object is to perpetuate "the spirit which this extraordinary man incarnated." Part of the program includes summer camps in Roosevelt's "old west...
...recognize the fact that the myriad troubles which beset China are not all due to foreign aggression; that which is probably the most serious is accounted for by the corruption of the Chinese officials themselves. Embezzlement and the misuse of public funds to the advantage of private affairs is a common practice, exercised with little or no check, while not infrequently officials have shamelessly accepted bribes in return for which they have sold the interests of their country. But', they continued, 'our troubles on this account, scandalous as they are, are greatly magnified when the money power of a foreign...
Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will deliver the first of his 1919-20 readings on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union. He will read selections from Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock. This is practically the first public reading for University students which has been delivered by Professor Copeland since pre-war days...