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...level-headedness of undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at it's lectures. Though they knew that Hiss could impart no special information on "The Meaning of Geneva," they were genuinely curious about what he would have to say. Whig-Clio undoubtedly was interested to some degree in the publicity of a Hiss appearance, but of course had no notion that it would create such an unfortunate furor...
...Bruce probably wouldn't do it all over again if he had the choice," a public speaking teacher said in reference to the choice of Hiss by Bruce D. Bringgold '57, Whig-Clio president. "We all had Father Halton regretted that the initial invition was ever tendered to Hiss. The Whig-Cliosophic Society which sponsored the talk, originally asked a total of seventeen luminaries--including Vice-President Nixon, Generals MacArthur, Ridgeway, and Marshall, Governor Folsom, Senators Eastland, McCarthy, Kefauver, and George--to address undergraduates...
...Whig-Clio's motives in asking Hiss probably were several. Student interest in current affairs...
Actually, one cannot help but suspect the motives of the Whig-Clio Society in asking Hiss to speak in the first place. While his comments on the Geneva Conference were undoubtedly interesting, his own position at Yalta was so unimportant as to make him anything but an expert on international conferences. More than anything else, Hiss was controversial, and all the hoopla surrounding the speech seems to be exactly what the Whig-Clios bargained...
...contrast to the impassioned harangues of Halton and Tumulty, Edwards talk was a sober and reasonable review of the Hiss record. He warned undergraduates however, that Hiss would give "a dramatic and charming performance" at the Whig-Clio speech tomorrow night. Students gave the Tribune reporter a spontaneous standing ovation when he concluded...