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...Truman. Unfortunately, there haven't been any. At least, I haven't heard any from Harvard professors. Both Mark Howe, of the Law School, who spoke for Truman at the Law School Forum, and Sam Beer, of the Government Department who backed Truman in a debate with Professor Cherington Thursday evening, gave exceptionally clear, intelligent talks. So did Cherington, as a matter of fact--but Beer and Howe managed to persuade me that what I had thought all along was 100 percent right. And when your candidate is Harry Truman, that takes persuading...
Three men from the Government Department--Assistant Professor Charles R. Cherington, Robert G. McCloskey, and Romylos C. Macridis--judged the contest here...
Both contestants freely admitted the faults of their candidates. Cherington termed his defense of Dewey "a bleak task indeed," while Beer admitted that President Truman had "committed himself right into the gutter" on such issues as civil rights...
...Cherington, who admitted regret that he could not vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt next Tuesday, maintained that in the face of a return to government by Congress "Mr. Dewey is more likely to be a success in the mid-twentieth century American Presidency." He cited Dewey's ability to organize good executive staffs as District Attorney and Governor of New York...
President Truman took his share of punishment too. A visit by candidate Dewey to Boston brought out both Harvard and Radcliffe students in a torchlight parade and cheering section at the Arena mass meeting, while Professor Charles R. Cherington attacked the Democratic party in his debate with Beer at a Politics Club meeting...