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...office may inwardly feel that the stakes are not low, that the YR presidency is a step toward the big-time. YR execs often harbor a desire to run for office eventually, or to have an influence with those who do. That many past presidents of the club today staff large law firms of unknown names indicates the probable lack of base for this hope...
Stephens attributes the importance of the presidency of the club--and the existence of the Machine built around it--to more than political opportunism. He explains, "The image people have of the club is identified with its president. His ideological bent is assumed to be club policy...
...ideology is as important as Stephens says, it follows that the greater the conservative-liberal spirit among club activists, the more likely there is to be friction--and excitement--in the club...
...late '50's were years when conservatives bitterly fought liberals. The Republican club had been uneventful during the first ten years of its existence; most Harvard Republicans were faithful to the tradition of their conservative founder. The biggest problem then, as now, was getting speakers. Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, billed as "one of the great orators of past centuries," was in Israel at the time of his planned speech at the 1952 Mock Convention. A Baptist minister eventually delivered the keynote, substituting for McKeldin's replacement. (The speakers program has always been plagued by bad luck--one of this year...
...club shook off the proper influence of its founder in 1957. The CRIMSON's lead story of Monday, February 25 was headlined Student Council to Investigate Charges of Votebuying in HRYC. That night the Student Council suspended the charter of the club to examine its election campaign...