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...such that a Youth for Democracy, along with an almost equally imminent Young Republican Club and the League itself would all function more freely if they were not entangled with each other. Another matter that concerns some students is that organizations formed this year will be likely to disband after the election. But this hardly seems to be a sound argument for refusing a charter. In fact, none of the welter of secondary issues alters the basic fact that Radcliffe's students, having become politically conscious, deserve to be allowed to exploit that consciousness as fully as are students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe and Politics | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

Thirty-six hours after the announcement, the Draft Eisenhower League finally gave in. National Chairman Stuart Scheftel resigned and asked all state chapters to disband. Six other members of the league's national board swung their support to Harold Stassen. Around Feb. 15, Eisenhower was expected to leave the War Department, as planned, and move on to the presidency of Columbia University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Back to Normal | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Every June, students in Cambridge, Massachusetts, disband and, returning to native pastures for the summer vacation, are fronted by the most unusual and diverse of their university in the minds of the town folks...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: South, Mid-West, West Coast Distort University | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

Marks had warned them all a year ago that he would have no organized cliques in his school, and the girls promised to disband. When he found out that three societies were still going, Principal Marks docked each of the 36 offenders ten study credits-to be made up in summer school. For seniors, that meant no graduation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Cost of Snobbery | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...Crown's sole positive duty is now "to consult, to encourage and to warn." But the King can still-theoretically-without consulting Parliament, disband his country's Army, sell all the Navy's ships, dismiss most of the civil servants, pardon all criminals, close all churches, create every citizen a peer, pick his own Prime Minister, and declare war on anyone he chooses. In practice, no King-or Queen-would dare do one of these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ein Tywysoges | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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