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Beyond its obvious implication that a Catholic on the ticket would have helped in 1952, Bailey's paper does not attempt to assign reasons for Stevenson's relatively poor showing among Catholics. Few Democrats believe that Stevenson's divorce lost him any substantial number of Catholic votes. But most Catholic Democratic leaders believe that the general charges of Democratic "softness toward Communism" were especially effective among Catholics. Since those charges are sure to be revived in 1956 to a greater or lesser degree, many a Democrat stands with John Bailey in the belief that a Catholic vice...
...students who think they want to concentrate in the sciences, for instance, pose a definite problem to the person who assigns advisers. For about 45 percent of entering Freshman plan to head toward the sciences, while only about 25 percent of the advisers are in the field of science. Leroy S. Rouner '53, assistant dean of Freshmen in charge of assigning advisers, says that he would not assign all the scientists to science even if he could, for "that" would set the adviser up as a mere dispenser of information. The adviser should know the correct details about the field...
First, somebody forgot to assign a man to raise the U.S. flag at Ebbets Field (an improvement over 1913, when the Dodgers couldn't even find a flag). Then, in a fit of haste, the Brooklyns ran their World Championship emblem up the pole above the Stars & Stripes...
...recommendations for a faculty "Director of the Theatre" suggest College control, or at least domination, of a field whose main virtue has been its independant enthusiasm. There is no doubt that a Professor of considerable rank and popularity will be needed to arrange program schedules and to assign priorities. There are serious doubts, however, about the value of the recommendation that, "He should be responsible for policy and should administer and schedule the program of the theatre." Student directors have serious and, perhaps, well-founded fears that the faculty Director will use his authority to presecribe the shows...
...prohibits the use of public funds for private schools. Revision would open the way to publicly financed "tuition grants," which would foot the bills for parents to send children to segregated private schools anywhere in the state. Corollary legislation under the Gray plan would allow school boards to assign pupils to public schools at their own discretion-and discrimination...