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...Ayers Brinser '31, lecturer in Economics, urged the party to analyze its votes to discover what its position should be and who the people are whom the party represents. Brinser maintained that Eisenhower's victory was due in large part to "responsible" Democratic opposition which made the Republican record "look very good...
Analyzing the importance of the once solid South, Brinser asserted that the position of the Southern Democrats "is not consistent with the liberal wing," which is itself "cracked by the breakdown of the urban vote." Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government, felt the party does not need the Solid South, and should not pay "a very big price for it, as I think it did this year...
Alexander J. Cella '51, Teaching Fellow in Government and State Assembly-man-elect from Medford, warned the party not to consider the South as "safe areas" any longer, but to consider the implications of the rise of suburban communities in the North. Brinser also asked whether the loss of some of the urban vote has been caused by a movement to the suburbs, or by a shift in income groups...
...impetus for the tutorial came from the "need of the House for more contact with science majors," Brinser said. Science concentrators were also being "shortchanged by the Houses," he added, "by missing advantages of the tutorial program...
...Brinser hoped that the program would make Kirkland House more of an intellectual center for the science concentrators, "who now spend most of their time in the different laboratories." The meetings will also give students a chance to discuss the vocational opportunities in certain neglected fields, he said. These included forestry, soil science, and hydrography...