Word: disbands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tight student government is not, and has never been, the aim of the Student Council. It has maintained the loose form of non-powerful student organization unique to Harvard and its House system. Should the Student Council disband, the only voices for student opinion and student views at Harvard would be those of the CRIMSON and WHRB. As much as I respect several of my friends on the CRIMSON I do not think that an undemocratic, self-perpetuating, non-representative group of men would be able to speak authoritatively for the student body...
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Peterson claims that he is running for the office "to unify the club." He also says that if elected he will disband the Harvard Times unless it proves economically feasible. Peterson says he will in any case try to "improve the quality of the paper...
...would the student body itself suffer if the Council should disband. To most students, it is an unrepresentative body which annoys them yearly for funds, an annoyance which becomes more frequently ignored with each passing year of fruitless debate. Students do not attend its forums on scholarships, travel, or the National Student Association--that troublesome organization about which the loudest Council debate always settles. Furthermore, students have little interest in what the Council is doing: revisions of its own procedure in meetings and elections often bring the feeling that the Council might well revise itself out of existence and bring...
...Were Governor." "Eisenhower has lit the fires of hate,'' intoned Mississippi's Senator James Oliver Eastland. Alabama's Governor James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim'') Folsom pledged that he would disband Alabama's National Guard before he would let Eisenhower order it into federal service. "We still mourn the destruction of Hungary," said Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, going his colleague, Dick Russell, one better. "Now the South is threatened by the President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote...