Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harold J. Laski, whose radical opinions have given him a good deal of publicity, is, it might be explained, a young Englishman who has served the University during the past two or three years as a lecturer on history and a tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics. During the current year he is giving lectures at Yale also. The brilliancy of his intellect and his capacity as a teacher are generally recognized, but his views on social and political topics run far afield from those which have usually been accounted orthodox, and his recent utterances...
...should be pointed out that in discussing these matters outside his classroom and in expressing whatever views he may hold on this or any other subject of current public policy, Mr. Laski is utilizing a privilege which Harvard has steadfastly accorded to all her teachers. As President Lowell declared some years ago, a university cannot exercise a censorship over the utterances of its teachers without accepting responsibility for everything they do or say. It might not be amiss to suggest to Mr. Laski, however, that, as he is not a citizen of the United States, the amenities of the situation...
...word more. They used to call that class of men, found in all countries, who spend their lives in the pursuit of this thing, "Truth", by one name--"intellectuals". Of this group, Professor Carver and Mr. Laski are both examples; both carn their living by thinking and the orizing. But one accuses the other indirectly of being "a Parlor Bolshevist." That kills him. Put a label on him and he is, dead as old Polomius...
...salient points of disagreement in the recent trouble was the question of affiliation with the A. F. of L. by an organization in the police department. Mr. Laski elsewhere propounds the doctrine of unchecked unionization and affiliation. Carry this theory to a further degree. After police, municipal employees, come federal and national employees, Why should not the Army or Navy unionize? An army strike for one tour of guard per year would increase the efficiency of the army surely...
Perhaps Mr. Laski will explain his stand and elucidate clearly the principles he talks for. There may be some extenuating circumstances hidden from the unenlightened. If he cannot wholly justify his course of action, or takes it from love of the bizarre, let us shun him as a "Boudoir Bolshevist," a breed against which we have been warned. D. H. WORRALL...