Word: freedoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your editorial of Saturday scoffing at the Committee for Academic Freedom to be sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa is a native piece of self-delusion. At the present time, there is more need than ever for the consolidation of all forces for the defense of civil liberties, within and without academic walls. The national organization of Phi Beta Kappa was forced to recognize this last year when it launched its campaign for the defense of intellectual freedom. For it is not simply "yapping minorities," as the editorial maintains, who are attacking the rights of students and teachers and labor organizations...
...Crimson asks that we wait until an issue arises before forming such committees for defense of academic freedom, which may be interpreted as the freedom to study as well as the freedom of students and teachers to speak their minds. Issues enough are at hand. The Industrial Mobilization Plan, which would conscript youth for work in factories in war time, is in the hands of the President: there has been a steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady an in crease of funds for armaments; and right now the Dies...
...Daladier the Premier was another story. His numerous decrees ending press freedom, clamping down a strict (and sometimes clumsy) censorship, his bland refusals to compromise, his crushing of the great French labor unions so that now French laborers are forced to work overtime for no extra pay and cannot effectively protest against either conditions or wages-all these things and others have caused widespread and deep-seated distrust. The Premier's argument last week that he must have a blank check from Parliament because "democracies find themselves in the presence of other regimes which can act rapidly...
Claiming to be an alumnus of the School of Dard Knocks who is in the dark about the meaning of the "academic freedom" which Phi Beta Kappa has set out to protect, Thomas Dorgan, former member of the State Legislature, calls on the learned fraternity for an explanation in a letter to Paul Olum, PBK First Marshal...
...Will you please explain to me as a former bus driver, what you mean by 'academic freedom' " the sponsor of the Teachers' Oath law writes. "I am waiting for it so as I can explain it to the rank and file alumni...