Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charter is the first constitution to be enacted under U.S. federal auspices since Arizona and New Mexico joined the union 40 years ago. Puerto Ricans boast that it is the most up to date. After years of emotional turmoil over what governmental status they wanted, Puerto Ricans chose neither statehood nor independence. They decided to become a sort of associated free state or commonwealth. Sumner Welles once described the arrangement as "divorce with alimony...
Within this special relationship, the Puerto Rican constitution makers have had a wonderful time writing their home-rule charter. Elected delegates headed by Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Antonio Fernós-Isern, conned every line of the U.S. Constitution and the 48 state charters. With such expert constitutionalists as Harvard's Carl Friedrich on hand to advise on sticky points, they wrote draft after draft, debating each clause like so many tropical Madisons and Hamiltons. Their bill of rights, written under the guidance of University Rector Jaime Benitez, is their special pride & joy. Revising Thomas Jefferson, it proclaims...
According to William J. Nazzarro '54, the group, which will be called the Harvard Young Democrats Club, has already satisfied the requirements for a University charter and now awaits Students Council approval...
Dean Watson, in effect liberalizing a controversial proviso in the current "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations," said, "I feel that no organization which has made a conscientious effort to get faculty sponsors, and has failed, should have its charter revoked or suspended for that reason alone...
...only recognized organization now affected by Watson's announcement is the Young Progressives, which operates under a four-year-old charter, and which announced yesterday that it had given up its perennial battle to find faculty sponsors, at least for the remainder of the spring term...