Word: avc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard chapter of AVC is in a distinctly anomolous position today. For although over 800 veterans are on their rolls and at least nominally behind what broadsides describe as a "liberal, dynamic program," AVC has for some time not been able to move as tellingly as it might. A normally vigorous executive board has had to content itself with utilizing only a fraction of the pressure potential inherent in the organization. The restless and dissatisfied veteran who pinned his pent-up hopes here is prey to disillusion and embitterment...
...AVC cannot be written off. What is true for AVC is true today for all liberal organizations. The liberal is everywhere on the defensive; the mass imagination seems uncapturable in the way that Americans were swept by the New Deal philosophy in 1932. Liberal organizations are flying in the face of the times, and must needs watch their egorts splintered into only partial effectiveness...
Preliminary returns from the American Veterans Committee's search for potential housing for married students have already listed five apartments and six or seven single rooms, John A. Quisenberry '46, chairman of the AVC's Housing Committee, announced last night...
...letters mailed out Sunday, the AVC had requested students living in non-University quarters and graduating in June to put their present living spaces on AVC files so that others attending the University would be able to obtain the vacated quarters...
Over 100 of those written have replied, Quisenberry revealed. He declared that the number of those willing to list their living space on AVC files "was well beyond the Housing Committee's expectations...