Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HYRC Committee met yesterday, examining evidence refuting charges brought against the Stalker faction. Student Council President Larry R. Johnson '58 urged any student having pertinent information or charges concerning the HYRC Presidential campaign to the attention of the committee. This can be done either at the regular meetings from noon to 5 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 p.m. tomorrow in Wigglesworth D, or by contacting a member of the committee. The members are: Richard P. Houlihan, Jr. 3L, Daniel M. Hall 2L, and Gary L. Schwendiman...
...Student Council deserves a vote of praise from its constituents for its decision to investigate the current electoral practices of the Harvard Young Republican Club. Whatever the Council decides, it remains true that the practice of packing the Club so that this or that faction may obtain the power and prestige which it so desperately wants is unworthy both of honest young Republicans and, more important, of Harvard men. At least, F.D.R., in his famed Court-packing scheme, could justify his plan on the grounds that he was attempting to preserve his economic program designed to benefit all Americans...
...Stalker faction continued adamant in their refusal to release information, thinking that the controversy should be settled within the Club. Smith feels that their silence is deplorable since it casts a bad light on the activities of the HYRC in the eyes of students outside the Club...
Today, Dean Watson will receive from the Student Council a written recommendation that the HYRC's charter be suspended and their books be impounded, presumably by him. He should not now take any such action. The Council acted in haste, and partly in anger because Stalker's faction refused to participate in the Council's investigatory meeting. Dean Watson may pursue a calmer course...
After investigation of the charges, Dean Watson would have to determine their validity. Should he and the Committee on Student Activities, which ultimately controls undergraduate organizations, feel that the Stalker faction has been guilty of the malpractices with which it is charged, he would have no alternative to asking Stalker to withdraw. Equivalently, should the Stalker faction produce accurate counter-charges against Smith and his followers, a similar course should prevail...