Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week we submitted a letter to you challenging University and CRIMSON liberals to come out in support of Congressional candidate Walter O'Brien, Democrat and Progressive. He is opposed by Christian Herter, Republican, who, despite the white-washing given him by Bayard Hooper in last Wednesday's CRIMSON, still holds one of the most reactionary voting records in Congress. Our first letter was not printed. In view of the new situation resulting from publication of Mr. Hooper's article, however, we are confident you will run this reply...
...which could make radicals of Harvard men, but when the G.O.P. began to drift down the conservative stream, the College followed. And in 1912 the Republican interests of the College were so divided between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt '80, that the students, like the nation, picked a Democrat as Chief Executive...
...that Harvard was ready to take sides came shortly before the election of 1800. The Hasty Pudding Club, which then represented the College's view fairly accurately, made a declaration of policy. "Three cheers" for Washington, it said, and "three more" for John Adams, 1755, but as for Republican-Democrat Tom Jefferson, "May he exercise his elegant literary talents for the benefit of the world in some retreat, secure from the troubles and dangers of political life." When his campaign brought Jefferson to Harvard he was booed, and the College showed that it hugged warmly the Federalist philosophy...
...first clear indication that Republicanism was not so rampant in the Faculty and Graduate Schools as in the College. Harrison swept the entire University, 1114 to 851, and the College, 674 to 458, but Cleveland took the Graduate Schools, and the Faculty voted 52 to 6 for the Democrat...
...Democrats were walloped badly in 1896, however. Harvard was a place that thrived on sound money and good gold. To beat William Jennings Bryan, the sound money forces behind McKinley, the Republican, and Palmer, the Independent Democrat, joined forces in a huge intercollegiate parade in Boston. A little too much fireworks and a trifle too much gaiety brought police billies down on gold standard skulls. But this kind of showmanship won followers, and Bryan was left with only 108 supporters...