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Headlined "Democratic spirit lives on at Yale," the article didn't touch on leftist groups until the very end, when it mentioned without comment a Socialist Club and a new-default AYD branch...
Designed as an organ of AYD, the "New Student" offers a heterogeneous collection of poems, articles, and a story. The poems leave much to be desired artistically; the articles tend to exaggerate the influence of AYD in the episodes that are described; and the story is evidently intended to carry some message of social significance. Just what the message may be is a matter for speculation...
...most outstanding feature of the magazine is its makeup-clean and bold. Its simplicity provides an attractive setting within which to display the contents. The tone of the articles is openly crusading. One side is right, the other wrong. Everything is made very simple. Roosevelt, Wallace, and the AYD are the heroes; anyone who is on the other side is a villain...
Such an approach may be soul-satisfying to the magazine's sponsors; but it is doubtful if it will attract any readers who do not already agree with the premises assumed by the AYD. Geoff White and Bill Labov in their misleading account of the Club 100 incident of last year go out of their way to take a slap at clubmen: "The club men form a very definite class of dwindling importance at Harvard, who only occasionally come out of their isolated routine to demonstrate their vicious and decayed mentalities." This same article demonstrates the authors' impatience and scorn...
Sale ruling he has been able to make to date. Watson added, has been to deny the jurisdiction of the faculty committee on extracurricular activities ever the operation of a strictly national AYD magazine, without the use of the name of the College in the title...