Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...complete freedom of action--with the understanding that he will "do all in his power to avoid doing anything to injure his University's reputation." His right to hold isolationist views, say, or to criticise domestic policy and national defense, is guaranteed him "by our ordinary American doctrine of civil liberty." Professors "are certainly at full liberty to think and to talk as they please upon any subject which interests them, whether it be popular or unpopular...
Anyone who is thinking of declaring himself an objector should not fail to consult the Faculty Civil Rights Committee if he is not sure just how and when to make his convictions known. Naturally the main factor in the situation is just what a man's conscience will or will not allow him to do, and on that score, no one can expect outside help. Several pacifist sects set up organizations for relief and reconstruction work in wartime, and then try their best to get them rated as legitimate noncombatant groups under the Selective Service Act. Nearly all these sects...
...advisory committee on civil rights including Zechariah Chafee, Langdell Professor of Law; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government; Morris B. Lambie, professor of Government; Henry J. Cadbury, director of the Andover Harvard Theological Library; and Raymond Dennett, Graduate Secretary of P. B. H., will advise conscientious objectors, provide information, and give legal advice concerning the Selective Service...
...arrived. Thieves preyed even on the dead: private detectives guarded Chicago's early graveyards. Between Bull Run and the great fire of 1871 roared the first of Chicago's incredible booms, in which everything but the police force expanded. Result was Chicago's reputation in the Civil War decade as "the wickedest city...
...advisory committee on civil rights including Zachariah Chafee, Langdell Professor of Law; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government; Morris B. Lamble, professor of Government; Henry J. Cadbury, director of the Andover Harvard Theological Library; and Raymond Dennett, Graduate Secretary of P. B. H., will advise conscientious objectors, provide information, and give legal advice concerning the Selective Service...