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...such a letter as this should be completely superfluous. All that I have said is evident to most children of ten upon first glancing over TIME. Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case with one or two of your new readers. It is to drown their minority protest that I speak out for the old guard. RAYMOND MACAULAY TREVELIAN...
...real provocation to offer as reason, the right of free speech and free assembly, guaranteed in both the constitutions of the nation and of New Jersey, has been denied not only to strikers, but to reputable lawyers and pacific clergymen. That such a situation can exist, even under protest, would rather suggest there are, still extant, reasons for wondering at the reflection of function to which democratic government has attained...
...TIME, June 23, 1924). From the spark of tragedy ignited by his death a powder train of suspicion flamed toward Mussolini and was barely stifled without blowing up the Fascist party. The entire Aventine Opposition walked out of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and has not returned* as a protest against both the crime itself and the ruthless methods of suppressing the scandal adopted by Fascismo. Not long ago (TIME, Oct. 19), Premier Mussolini cried: "When the slayers of Matteotti are tried, the trial will be Fascismo's greatest triumph!" The trial (TIME, March 29) ended last week with...
...worst and most ridiculous sides of college life had been taken as an accurate portrayal of Harvard students and the life they led. They felt too much pride in the traditions and honor of the University to let such a caricature of it pass without a vigorous protest. Unfortunately the method they chose did little to add to that honor which was so dear to them...
...truth is that, under all the excesses of youthful turbulence on itself, there was a wholesome and reasonable protest against a play that so far as it professes to represent life at Harvard College, in either the manners and customs or the large standards of conduct and character of the students there is preposterous to a comical grotesquesness. There are, none the less, enough to believe anything and everything, however grotesque and preposterous of Harvard College. By all accounts they have taken 'Brown at Harvard' as a rather unflattering picture of life there and not as the lively entertainment...