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...your esteemed paper for 20 February last, Professor George Sarton expresses concern lest the investigations of the Congressional Committee on un-American Activities tend to stifle freedom of expression in our universities. In your issue of 27 February I read of the punishment of two undergraduates for the somewhat childish prank of burning a flery cross. It is evident that this was done as a joke, but, if it had been done seriously, the action of the authorities would seem to be such as to discourage freedom of speech and expression of opinion. In his revealing little book "Geneyre contre...
...Ellenton, narcissuses and camellias still bloomed around the angry scars where once there were homes. A hound dog snoozed in the sun on worn brick steps that led to a void. A rag doll lay in the dust. On the blackboard of the village school a childish hand had written in big round letters: "Goodbye, dear school. Goodbye." Galphin Dunbar, 73, a descendant of the family originally granted the land around Ellenton by King George II two centuries ago, sat brooding on a baggage dolly in the railroad shed. "I'm gonna leave," he said...
...anything else he could get his hands on. He was "Honest Harold," bristling with incorruptibility, and so suspicious of everybody that he organized a private detective force to keep his department straitlaced. He was the "Old Curmudgeon," with a belligerent aggressiveness, a flair for day-to-day administration, a childish temper and a tongue like a branding iron...
...then, when childish wails begin We don't debate. We just give...
...matter of disagreement. Fact is that it is less showy about sex. Whatever its immoralities, it commits them on the whole because it enjoys them, and not because it wants to demonstrate against Victorian conventions or shock Babbitt. In that sense, it is far less childish than its parents were. As a whole, it is more sober and conservative, but in individual cases, e.g., the recent dope scandals, it makes Flaming Youth look like amateurs...