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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ratcliffe, English publicist and journalist, will be the speaker at the luncheon of the Harvard Liberal Club of Boston to the given today at 12.45 o'clock in the Colonial Room of the Crawford House. His subject will be "Liberalism and Labor in England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Club to Hear of English Liberalism | 12/18/1919 | See Source »

...second the motion that we invite a professed non-radical to "mouth his doctrines"--is that correct--at Harvard. May I also suggest that when a speaker as interesting as Mr. Humphries is found to sustain the other side, we refrain from attributing to him unpopular sentiments about American government; from indignant letters demanding his suppression; from veiled editorials suggesting that he is "not the sort of man"; from abusing him indiscriminately as a "subtle propagandist" and a "credulous sentimentalist;" and from the argumentum ad hominem generally. Apart from any question of courtesy or dignity, this sort of thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Invite a Professed Non-Radical. | 12/18/1919 | See Source »

...authors of the communication, mature graduates, seriously contend that a speaker is "insidiously subtle" who opens his address with the frank statement that he is a Bolshevist? Have the authors of the communication, when they assert that the United States is "internally and externally at war" with Russia, forgotten that power to declare war is vested only in Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Even Tiddlety-winks. | 12/13/1919 | See Source »

...University authorities knowingly permitted open advocacy of the policies and principles of a government with which the United States is internally and externally at war. Although the apparent tacit approval of the University may be explained by inadvertence or lack of information concerning the insidiously subtle propaganda of the speaker involved, (who outdoes Mr. H. G. Wells in his own "rayon" in picturing the delights and perfection of Soviet Russia to which even such eminent, advocates of the cause as Miss Emma Goldman seem loath to return) we feel that it would be salutory to have those persons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Indignant Challenge. | 12/12/1919 | See Source »

Dean C. N. Greenough '98, a former officer of the society, was the chief speaker of the evening. That the work of the Memorial Society is vitally important to the University was his main point. "The University expects this work from the Society, and it must be kept up. I am delighted to see that undergraduate interest is again aroused to the necessity of the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL SOCIETY ELECTS NINETEEN NEW MEMBERS | 12/11/1919 | See Source »

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