Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that Professor Lord will open his general course in Russian History after mid-year's, as a half-course dealing especially with more recent events in Russia, comes as welcome evidence that Harvard is keeping abreast of the times in the matter of curriculum. While, in general, it is not the proper function of a university to deal with questions upon which much evidence is outstanding, nothing stimulates undergraduate interest so much or shows in such a concrete way the bearing of the classroom on life as a stimulating discussion and analysis of contemporaneous events...
...remarkable events which have recently been taking place in Russia and the interest which many students feel in the situation, this policy has been changed and students are permitted to take up the course as a regular half-course with the consent of the instructor. It will deal mainly with the internal affairs of Russia and with the growth of the struggle between liberalism and autocracy...
Radicals and their friends seem to suffer from an elephantiasis of the sense of fair play. This sense shrinks to the bourgeois normal when radicalism becomes respectable, as in Russia. In this country the radicals hardly promise a "square deal" to those whom they seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess the radicals of the power they now have, is it just to apply their own maxims against them? "He who seeks justice must come with clean hands." J. M. WOOD...
...point about the "firing squad" is concerned, I think Mr. Shubow is taking too much for granted when he assumes that Mr. Wyman wants to shoot every misguided American who thinks the Reds are not getting a square deal. On the contrary, Mr. Wyman makes it plain that "disloyal citizens and spies" are the ones to be "used as targets for a firing squad." In this he is perfectly right, and I know from experience, gained in the last two or three years, that the firing squad is an easy and effective method of getting rid of such traitors...
...wise is sufficient"-- and in the future if Mr. Shubow is to be considered a loyal American, he will adopt and live up to the American Legion's ideas of Americanism, in which case there will be no doubt in his mind as to the squareness of the deal handed to the Red fiends now penned up at Deer Island. CHARLES WARREN LIPPITT...