Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...academic circles for the clarity with which President Lowell has now spoken out on the ever-vexed issue of freedom of speech in the University. On the one hand he has shown what is the new disadvantage that must fall on a college which seeks to exert an actual censorship of the opinions publicly expressed by its professors. Assuming authority to delete what it considers undesirable material, the college becomes incidentally and with fresh weight responsible for the material which it allows to remain. In this way the college loses the right, which it may now justly claim, to insist...
...responsibility attaching to them as members of a teaching faculty, and never for mere personal ends. In other words, the restraint is moral and ethical. It is because it is moral that it can neither be disregarded with impunity nor enforced by a mere codification of rules for a censorship. --Boston Transcript...
...strict censorship regulations prevent my telling you many things that I think would be interesting. Our trip over was uneventful. We did not see any submarines or have any excitement...
...CRIMSON can look forward to the threatening censorship of the daily press with considerable equanimity. While the slash of blue pencil and daub of India ink will make the pages of the Boston newspapers unreadable, the CRIMSON will still be able to print the news so that it will be clear and unmistakable to the undergraduate. Words with such deep military significance as "Crimson," "grades" and "deturs" will, of course, have to be omitted. Announcements in the courses on perspective, gas analysis, theory of design, class Martial, the canon (and fugue) and Bacon will no longer appear in the notice...
Congress and the War Department may do their worst. The censorship has no terrors for the CRIMSON...