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...fortnight ago Mrs. Bertrand Russell, author of The Right to be Happy, wife of the English philosopher, was refused the privilege of speaking before the "mixed" Student Forum at the University of Wisconsin on the subject:."Should Women Be Protected?" This subject involved companionate marriage, in which Mrs. Russell is a firm and earnest believer. President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin had been consulted by the Student Forum and had approved of barring of Mrs. Russell (TIME...
...distinction that emerged last week from a perplexed and not unamusing situation in Madison, Wis. The soul-stirring subject of "companionate marriages" had been filling periodicals of the high-minded kind for which President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin writes articles. Eager intellects of the Wisconsin Student Forum heard that the wife of famed Philosopher Bertrand Russell of England was coming to the U. S. to lecture in connection with the publication of her "fearless," "astounding" and rather trite book, The Right to Be Happy. The Student Forum invited Mrs. Russell to lecture on "Companionate Marriages" and looked...
Shocked by the insouciance of Mrs. Russell's "experimental" attitude toward sex, startled into realization of what polyandry might mean if honestly recognized at a co-educational institution, Students Frederick Hyslop and Frederick Joachim of the Forum went to President Glenn Frank, asked him what they had better...
...gave it as my opinion," said Dr. Frank later, "that Mrs. Russell had indulged in an exhibition of very bad taste and said that if I were a member of the Student Forum I would not favor bringing her to address a mixed audience...
...Russell's lecture was cancelled and the Student Forum breathed more freely, having escaped the blushful consequences of its own temerity by a road which did not contravene Wisconsin's broad avenue of free speech. In their excitement, however, the students quite missed Dr. Frank's subtler point and announced that the cancellation was on "moral" grounds instead of the less debatable ground of good taste...