Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he knew what was happening, Lenin found himself high on Reed's and Freeman's shoulders, gazing down on a bewildered crowd. Ignorant of American customs, or perhaps disapproving, he protested, and, when protests did no good, kicked. They let him down, Reed, unabashed, joking at the bump on Penney's forehead...
...inconspicuously alike, came to call on me. Their names were Jonathan Fairfax III '59 of Boston and the Fly Club and Simon Cohen '59 of Scarsdale, New York, and the Minority Rights Club. Casting aside their fraternal affiliations and in the democratic spirit that made Al Smith an American reality, the two gentlemen said that were soliciting for contributions to the Harry T. Levin Ping-Pong Ball endowment, which, as is well known by now, ensures that no Harvardman need ever go without. How can I attempt to explain the fullness of heart I felt, the soaring elation, indeed...
...discussion is not NSA's raison-d'etre. Nor is it a rationale for participation. It is, however, hard to deny the advantage of membership and energetic activity within an organization which "represents" the mass of American college students. The Student Council has complained that the representation in NSA is phony, that student leaders are not elected on political grounds and cannot speak for their constituents in matters of national and international concern. The NSA does not pretend that its delegates are political representatives of their schools. What it does believe, and rightly, is that student leaders, elected from...
...organization representing American students has a vast potential for action. And the role which the NSA plays in international student affairs is an appropriately significant one. As only one of a vast number of better organized pressure groups in the United States, it is relatively ineffective. But in the foreign exchanges and relations which it promotes, it serves an indispensable function. No other group so effectively presents democratic views to the student leaders abroad where Communism expends a good deal of effort on student groups. Presuming that Harvard students are some day to be leaders of their country, it seems...
...campus politicoes received a reply yesterday from the State Department to their request for a clarification of American foreign policy in the Formosa Straits...