Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After nearly two years of controversy, dissent and resultant mediocrity, the Harvard Dramatic Club has resolved to regain its previous high standing. This spring as well as giving a performance which, though patronized by discouragingly small audiences, was unanimously lauded by critics, the Club is widening its influence by patronizing and making possible the professional production of "Electra". In its announcement this morning, the Club hopes to continue this policy of bringing to Boston classics which could not otherwise be presented. Carried out carefully, this plan should be advantageous not only to local theatre-goers but also to the treasury...
...which are so tainted with the principles and theories of the Reds, are rarely studied with the understanding necessary to realize more than the minimum knowledge necessary for satisfactory grades. In all events, no matter what the political convictions of most undergraduate groups, there is certain to be enough dissent to prevent the possibility of universities' graduating a working majority of Democrats...
...barrel-chested, full-blooded Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson. His face as red as his necktie, he leaped to the platform, began an address of his own. He waved his arms, shook his fists at Chairman Raskob. He thundered and bellowed. He worked himself up into a passion of dissent. Cried...
...dissent expressed in past years against the language requirements and the methods provided for meeting them reflected itself last fall in the modification of French 2. The change was an attempt to eliminate some of the mechanical details ordinarily associated with elementary courses, and to develop more literary interpretation and appreciation. By exchanging the old composition book for a new and more satisfactory volume, and by altering the outside reading system. It was hoped to remove from French 2 much of the taint which all required courses seem to possess...
Chorus of Dissent. Despite this historical precedent and veiled assurances that the President would flex out imperfections which even 'the Republican National Committee admitted were in the bill, a great new sector of U. S. industry called imperiously for a veto. Normal protestants against tariff upping are importers (i. e. department stores) who bear the brunt of higher rates, and political opponents who plead in the name of the ''consumer." Now the chorus of tariff dissent was swelled by a third and more potent group, composed of big industrialists who have saturated home markets with their production...