Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...outdone by the bloodthirsty and militaristic propaganda of the Officers' Training Corps, the more peaceful members of the University have now organized the "Harvard Union for American Neutrality." Its platform is replete with long-exploded sentiments of brotherly love, sentiments worthy of Mr. Bryan or the Kaiser's agents--in America. It asks Mr. Wilson to use "thoughtful deliberation rather than hasty or injudicious action." To those who keep in mind the previous policies of the President, this portion of the platform seems rather useless. The most rabid Republican would never accuse him of being hasty or injudicious in making...
...likelihood continue their agitation. Probaby they will do so principally outside the University where there exists a less favored but considerable body of citizens whose sense of obligation to their country is not so lively because, perhaps, they feel that they have less from that country. If the pacifist propaganda makes headway among such sections of public opinion--as it shows signs of doing--it will mean that something bigger and more difficult must be attended to before the campaign for conscription can be put through. It will mean that universal service can be successfully claimed only when there exists...
...Union; and so, as it happened, no harm was done beyond having to change the announcements and to turn away a few would be hearers. The reason that the Corporation threw the Verein upon the kindness of the Union was that "college halls are not to be used for propaganda...
...Skeffington meeting was to have been open only to members of the University (although some newspapers, through their own error, announced it as open to the public). Even so, the hall was refused on the ground that this was "propaganda." Keeping out "propaganda" was attempted in 1911 by the exclusion of Mrs. Pankhurst. Whatever the merits or demerits of Mrs. Pankhurst's opinions might be, this policy was seen to be objectionable, and was apparently abandoned--witness the suffrage speaker's noted move. I am not aware that it has been revived till the Skeffington case...
Aside from other objections to this anti-propaganda is exceedingly difficult of practical definition. Perhaps a majority of Harvard professors urge upon their students views of moot questions and pet doctrines well within the dictionary meaning of the term--always indicating to the class, of course, that the matter is in the field of contention. All the speakers mentioned in the list above apparently were considered not propagandists. Neither was Captain Ian Hay Beith, whom the CRIMSON accurately referred to as having "been sent to this country by the British Government to explain Britain's part...