Word: saying
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...part of the general history of political ideas. We do not agree with Mr. Laski's remarks before the Policemen's Union, nor do we believe his presence there good taste. But we feel equally that any attack on the right of any member of the Faculty to say what he wants is to be resented. The Transcript is attempting to bring pressure to bear on Harvard to remove one of its instructors by stirring up parents "from Maine to California." We venture an opinion that these same parents place more trust in Harvard University than in the remarks...
...Flinn goes on to say that the writer of the CRIMSON editorial advocated our breaking faith with our fighting men. I am somewhat at a loss to know exactly what our faith was. Should we load them with gifts? Apparently not, for Mr. Flinn advocates a "normal war service gratuity", a very pretty term, indeed; but is it much different from the "common or garden variety" pension? We are not proclaiming our treatment of the Civil War and Spanish War veterans from the housetops; but they re ceived practically the same thing as a "national war service gratuity...
What Mr. Laski meant to say was undoubtedly that all labor has the right to organize as it will; and having spent the time and labor necessary to write a very dry and scholarly book completely setting forth this view, it must be rather discouraging to find himself so completely reversed. Whether Mr. Laski is right or not is open to discussion; but let us at least grant him the privilege of being "different." HAROLD M. FLEMING...
...performances of "Hamlet" now being given at the Tremont Theatre in matinees are of a rare distinction. For one whose memory of the theatre goes back to the days of Edwin Booth and includes all the great Hamlets of our time, it is not too much to say that Mr. Hampden's presentation is worthy of taking rank among the traditions of our stage. In person, in voice, in acting, Mr. Hampden presents a Prince of Denmark who is a troubled human being rather that a mere deliverer of theatric monologues. Surrounded by a competent company, with an entirely adequate...
...believe, however, that Mr. Laski holds no such extreme view, and that his regard for what he considers the ill-treatment of the Boston police caused him to say what he did. He is not so much in sympathy with the strikers as he is against the uncompromising attitude of Commissioner Curtis. No matter how far in the wrong the latter may have been, whole-hearted sympathy with the striking policemen cannot be. The argument used so much by their attorneys that they did not strike until assured the city was safeguarded does not hold. If they had known this...