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...university, then the College of New Jersey, opened in the fourth week of May, 1747, with the Reverend Jonathan Dickinson, Yale 1706, as president. No records have been kept of the number of students enrolled during the first session, but in 1748 six students received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Dr. Dickinson died on October...
...short, says Professor Dickinson, "political opinion ceases to be free in England as soon as it is sufficiently unpopular...
Professor G. Lowes Dickinson, of Oxford University, would heartily agree. He finds that there are hardly more than two British papers which dare defend the conscientious objectors to military service or to propose peace. Meetings for discussion of peace are broken up by rowdies. The Defence-of-the-Realm. Act has been twisted from its purpose of preventing information from reaching the enemy into a gag-law to prevent intelligent criticism of public interests...
Professor Dickinson concludes that speech is free as long as we agree with the speaker. When we do not, it is howled down. In both the gentleman and the thug, the first impulse is to throw a brick at the man who says something with which he strenuously disagrees. The difference between the gentleman and the thug is that the gentleman lets his opponent have his say. The thug throws the brick. Boston Globe...
March 24, Dickinson; March 27, Swarthmore; March 28, Seton Hall; March 31, Villanova; April 3, Holy Cross; April 6, Virginia at Charlottesville; April 7, Navy at Annapolis; April 13, Williams; April 14, Rutgers; April 18, Amherst; April 21, Pennsylvania; April 25, Fordham; April 28, Brown at Providence; April 30, Lawrenceville...