Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cowardly Attempt." But anyone who knew anything about Wayne Morse's record for political consistency could have made an odds-on bet that his Democratic honeymoon would not last forever. Sure enough, he soon began feuding with Richard Neuberger. In 1957 Neuberger voted for a civil rights bill that Morse had dismissed as meaningless. Later, Neuberger committed the sin of sponsoring a trivial bill to turn over some public lands to the town of Roseburg, Ore.-without consulting Wayne Morse. That did it. Morse killed the bill, which required unanimous Senate consent. There followed a truly remarkable exchange...
Faced with these compound difficulties, Harvard's political clubs offer a variety of programs--education in political technique, research on a prominant issue, an attempt to gain "influence within the body politic," and group discussion of a mutual political stand. But at least four-fifths of the College, ignoring these programs, stays away from the network of political clubs. Of the remaining one-fifth who belong, only a minority are active...
Radcliffe students also expressed greater favor than Harvard men on partial surrender of American sovereignty. A slim majority of the girls favored a serious attempt at international federation or world government, while, among Harvard students, the opponents were in the majority...
...articles in this eleventh CRIMSON Commencement Supplement attempt to answer some questions essential to an understanding of the undergraduate and the College: What are the religious and political opinions of Harvard undergraduates? What transitions in attitudes have undergraduates experienced? What factors cause these changes and, more specifically, what effect does Harvard exert in molding the student's beliefs...
...think the concept of the national state has become so dangerously anachronistic that the U.S. should take the risks involved in surrendering some of her sovereignty, in a serious attempt at achieving a strong international federation or world government? 136 yes; 136 no; 30 indifferent...