Word: thought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...composed of 50,000 workmen residing in and about Boston, and any member of the Union may take courses there. The lectures are to be held at night, and each course will cost the student $2.50. The proximity of the University and its well earned record for constructive liberal thought has caused the Central Labor Union to appoint three Harvard men as the committee to arrange the teaching staff of the new college...
...Bishop Lawrence, John R. Mott, Robert E. Speer, and Sherwood Eddy in the mornings and evenings leaving the afternoons free for tennis, golf, track, and baseball. In this way, the Conference will not only give opportunities for personal contact with men who are leaders in modern religious thought, but will also offer a chance for a few days of healthy out-of-door recreation. Under the direction of special teachers small groups will be formed for individual Bible study. A play is given the last night of the Conference...
...plan instituted last year for promoting discussion and thought among the students on present day political, economic, and social questions was renewed this year with equal success and interest. Weekly Discussion Groups, led by a professor or instructor, have been held since the beginning of the year under the direction of the Christian Association of Brooks House with entirely satisfactory results. A series of discussion meetings, called "A Forum for Harvard Men," were begun on February 11, when Professor Wiener talked to 160 students on "Bolshevism" and subsequent meetings were addressed by Professor Munro, Professor Carver, President Eliot and others...
...soldiers, to be used as a place for public gatherings should be in part devoted to the training of men in the art of speaking properly seems perhaps very natural. The part that the human voice has played in this great war appears very striking at a moment's thought. The drama brought cheer and esprit to men in the camps and in the field. Public speech was largely the means by which patriotism was aroused, and Liberty Loans were effected. In legislatures, in general assembly places, in the theatres, on the streets, and in the camps, the country over...
After all the record of the University, as regards freedom of thought, has not been so bad. In the days when Professors Francke and Munsterburg sought to justify the German Imperial Government, no one prevented them from saying what they pleased. At the first hint from anywhere that "They should be shut up," the CRIMSON or the Illustrated would reply with a passionate appeal for free speech. They were not "shut up" and the University's mind remained unpoisoned...