Word: questions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, the undoctored facts of the case argue that the question of free speech is not involved here. The decision seems to have revolved around an entirely different issue. To conclude that liberal rights are being sabotaged, it is necessary to poke around beneath the facts and to emerge with some dubious interpretations. It is necessary to attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading...
...Greene was entirely justified in raising the question of good taste. But a sounder course of action for him would have been to protest on this ground and to suggest that the project be abandoned, but finally to abide by his previous commitment if the John Reed sponsors still wished it. The University could still remove itself from a compromising position by regrinding to Mr. Browder his permit to speak in the New Lecture Hall. Failing in that, Harvard will have to struggle as best it can against unjustified charges of reaction...
...Society however, feels that there is an adequate precedent to make the University reverse its decision that it would be in bad taste to have Browder speak, or to discuss the question at Harvard. We know of an analogous situation in October, 1920," the Society said...
Four days before the scheduled talk in the Union. Thomas was arrested for violating a city ordinance involving the question of free speech in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. The University did not withdraw its permission allowing Thomas to speak and he spoke in the Union on the night of October 18, after his trial at Mt. Vernon...
...John Read Society "feels that the question of 'propriety' ought not to keep students from hearing what Browder has to say.... It had been our understanding that the selection of speakers for undergraduate organizations was not one of Mr. Greene's duties...