Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days after the Mather-Barnes debate, President Conant testified before the House Education Committee, which had been considering the Barnes Bill since February 3. Conant spoke officially for Harvard, and was joined by representatives from Clark, Wellesley, Simmons, Williams, and MIT. They all condemned the bill...
...days afterwards a protest meeting was held on the campus. It was unauthorized, however, so the college suspended the three students who "justigated and addressed it." The Vanguard, college daily, later charged that "at this same 'unauthorized' meeting, students who openly supported the suspension of K.M.S. and its leaders, spoke -- yet no similar action, no action at all, was taken against these people...
...spoke at the annual dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Society in Worcester. "The professional ideal," Pound said, "is menaced by the development of great government bureaus and a movement to take over the arts practiced by the profession and make them functions of the government to be exercised by its bureaus in a super-service state which may become a service super-state...
...speech was cancelled, however, on the insistence of the local American Legion post. McWilliams spoke in Riverside anyway--at a meeting called on May 16 to protest the Legion's action...
Many faculty members spoke out against the action, but no vote was called...