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...wholly with the various colleges in the different athletically related groups or conferences. During the twenty years the N. C. A. A. has been in existence, there has been a delightful spirit evidenced by the various members. Recently the departure from the policy of condoning national championships through the sanction of a national track and field meet in Chicago has occasioned adverse comment from some colleges, who feel that the effectiveness of their organization will be seriously curtailed if such practice becomes widespread...
...Bertrand Russell, now on a lecture tour of the United States, describes the difficulties of travel for persons whose opinions have not the official sanction of the country visited. "In England," Mr. Russell writes in his book, "Free Thought and Official Propaganda" (Huebsch), "it is illegal to teach belief in the Christian religion. It is also illegal to teach what Christ taught on the subject of non-resistance. In America no one can enter the country without first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy, and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan...
...been known for some weeks that the Undergraduate Committee of the Union has urged this step. With its sanction, the names of Eugene V. Debs, the socialist leader who was thrown in to prison during the War, Dr. Scott Nearing, the radical professor who was forced to leave the University of Pennsylvania when the United States entered the War, and W. Z. Foster, leader were proposed at a recent Board meeting, but were provisionally voted down. It is understood that through the insistence of the Undergraduate Committee, the present new committee on speakers was appointed by the Board...
...until the present demonstration of official prudishness subsided. Now, however, the threatened calamity has been averted. Whatever may be the state of City Hall opinion in the Hub of the Universe, this way-ward spoke will continue its mad career along the primrose path, if not with the open sanction, at least with the tacit consent of its own particular Cato. The tradition of culture and individuality established half a century ago by the Brattle Street illuminati has been saved certainly for the present and possibly even for future generations. Io Saturnalia...
...Overseers and Corporation appointed a joint committee to consider the entire subject of the regulation of athletic sports, and gave teeth to their action by instructing the Athletic Committee to sanction no commitments by Harvard for intercollegiate contests after December 1, 1906. Late in November, as the joint committee had made no report, authority was granted to arrange contests with other colleges up to July...