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Some time ago, a gentleman wrote a letter which eulogized as martyrs certain Columbia professors who, if I remember rightly, were supposed to be of the same breed as Scott Nearing. The writer's defence was that anyone is entitled to free speech. I wrote an answer at time; it never appeared in the CRIMSON...
...This is a misstatement. Mine was the sixth. On January 22 I submitted to the CRIMSON a reasonable letter asking a public explanation of the wretched condition of the Advocate; and on January 25 I presented a note asking why the letter had not been published. I received no answer. The CRIMSON saw fit to suppress the letter and ignore the note...
This editorial further states that the CRIMSON's sole reason for refusing to print the answer to its attack on the Freshmen was that the writer of that answer protested in "an insulting note" against their failure to print...
...challenge the CRIMSON to print at this late date either of the two communications from graduates regarding the Advocate, which we know that it has suppressed; or the answer to its recent attack on the Freshmen; or, beter, all three, to prove its statement that the communications which were not published "were either anonymous, or written in a childishly flippant and comic-supplement style." The undergraduate body should know fully whether or not such letters are "signed and more than persiflage." And the undergraduate body is entitled to know the truth about the Advocate affair, even after the long...
...Advocate question the CRIMSON has received five letters: one condemning the Advocate from the four men who have signed the following communication, that letter being published on December 21; the second, an answer by a graduate to that letter, which was received the day the Christmas recess began and which was not published; the third from a graduate in New York, asking for some information, this letter being answered and nothing further heard; the fourth from a student in the Law School who advised the Advocate members to go to Podunk High School for contributions, the letter not being published...