Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tasks and future of democracy will be the subject of the Godkin Lectures this year, open to the public without charge, to be given next month by Professor Charles K. Merriam, noted authority on modern government, of the University of Chicago...
Failure of the University of Michigan to state the charges against a group of students dismissed last June or to grant the students the open hearing they have repeatedly requested was sharply condemned in a letter sent to President Alexander G. Ruthven yesterday by 250 educators, churchmen and writers...
...cannot reconcile," it continued, "the treatment of dismissed students with such a conception of the university, and especially of a state university. Dismissal without charges, unsupported allegations of being a 'disturbing influence,' denial of an open hearing--these are not the methods by which a democratic society can long continue to exist...
Continued refusal by University authorities to grant an open hearing, the letter concluded, "will inevitably lead many to the conclusion that the University of Michigan can no longer be classed among the truly free institutions of higher learning...
Isolation support of candidate Willkie was without reason. Professor Taylor maintained, because "from the isolationist standpoint, the real sinner was surely Mr. Willkie." It is the duty of the opposition, he explained, to open up the fundamental issues, yet Mr. Willkie ignored the issue that was so plain to isolationists...