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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Final plans as announced yesterday set the opening of the Model constitutional Convention in which seventy Harvard Undergraduates are partaking for tomorrow afternoon at Phillips Brooks House at 1:30 o'clock.
The remaining sessions of the Convention will be held in Sever 11, late on Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. The Convention has been organized into six committees which will deliver their respective reports to the entire Convention tomorrow afternoon with recommendations on philosophical interpretation and methods of constitutional amendment...
Among the faculty members co-operating will be Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, who has termed the Convention as something that "should help clarify public thinking on this fundamental topic."
In starting a student convention tomorrow to reconsider the Constitution in the light of modern conditions, the Council of Government Concentrators has chosen a fitting way to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the turbulent 1787 Convention. With hysterical cries like "scrapping the Constitution" and "assaults on Constitutional morality" booming from...
The committees will then formulate reports, to be presented to the Convention, which will be composed of delegates of the 48 states and will meet in Sever 11. The Convention is to take final action on these reports, following what is expected to be an extended debate.