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Bertrand Russell

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  1. Bertrand Russell lectures in Chapel Hill The British philosopher Bertrand Russell lectured in Swain Hall on December 3 as part of the University's entertainment series, announced under the title 'Need Moderns Be Cynical?' Under a plan voted by the students, each paid a $3 fee for a season that also brought William Beebe, Lorado Taft and the Isadora Duncan Dancers. Place: Swain Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lorado TaftSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 6, 1929, p. 1

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Anti-religious invasion of higher education

Tatum, L. A. (Loyd Allen), 1917-1995 · 1932 · L.A. Tatum

L. A. Tatum's address, delivered on presenting a petition to Governor O. Max Gardner, objects to the speaker policy at the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina College for Women, and in particular to appearances by Bertrand Russell at both and Langston Hughes at the university. Published by Tatum at Belmont, North Carolina in 1932.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

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In heaven's name, governor, save our state from further predatory acts by these so-called modern educators against "things of the spirit"

1932

A protest addressed to Governor O. Max Gardner in 1932 against the speakers invited to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and to the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro, among them Bertrand Russell and Langston Hughes. Printed in North Carolina, it concerns lecturers in both towns and liberalism in the state.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

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"Angels of darkness" on the campus at Chapel Hill

1932 · Funk and Wagnall's

A 1932 magazine account of the attack L.A. Tatum made on the universities at Chapel Hill and Greensboro for letting Langston Hughes and Bertrand Russell lecture to students. Detached from the Literary digest, volume 114, number 16, for 15 October 1932, with subjects including lecturers, liberalism and the North Carolina College for Women.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

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