Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seriously disturbed at the attitudes toward Professor Lattimore's address, sponsored by the U.N. Council, expressed in the CRIMSON editorial of March 1, and by the moderator of the meeting, Prof. Holcombe. In stating the basis of freedom of speech at Harvard, both the Crimeds and Prof. Holcombe seem to have fallen into la trap laid by McCarthyite demagogery. This trap consists of the almost patronizing attitude taken towards such speakers as Lattimore; that Harvard is showing a really generous spirit in allowing him to speak...
...CRIMSON editorial lumps Prof. Lattimore with such figures as Gerhard Eisler, Earl Browder, and Gerald L. K. smith. Yet Lattimore is at most a moderate liberal, as borne out by his address. He does not even support , as I believe a good many Harvard students do, the recognition of Red China as the de facto regime of that nation. Yet because of the vicious and totally false picture of his views presented by the American McCarthyism, a picture apparently accepted to some degree by the Crimeds, he is presented as a radical and unorthodox figure...
...Note. During his own career, President Pusey has done more than play guard to a tradition. It was in another role that he took himself over to Harvard's languishing Divinity School one day last fall as the first president since Eliot to deliver a major address there. He severely criticized the old idea that society can be a substitute for God, that knowledge and good works are enough, that anything can be solved "by escaping into a formless empyrean of good will . . ." Said he: "This faith will no longer do ... Events of the 20th century have made...
Despte objections from the American Legion, Owen Lattimore will address a United Nations Council Forum tonight on the subject of "The Place of Asia in American Thought" at 8 p.m. in the New Lecture...
Approximately 100 delegates will represent over 30 New England schools at today's conference, open to the public. After Marshall's address, Clifford A. Alexander '55, president of the Student Council, will deliver a brief speech...