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Central political issues are expected to emerge in the selection of the ten man group which will represent the chapter at the AVC national sessions in Milwaukee June 19-22. Communist infiltration, hotly discussed within AVC here prior to the meeting, has already loomed as a focal point of controversy in tonight's debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Delegation Looms as Chief Controversy in AVC Meeting Tonight | 5/1/1947 | See Source »

...meeting was then opened to specific questions from the audience. Obstacles to the rehabilitation of French citizens who were slave laborers in Germany was a focal point of discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Readjustment Bogs Cited By Rueff | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

However, the old Advocate Board room is now unoccupted, and presumably this would be used at used at least as a focal point for revived Advocate activity...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Meeting Tonight May Decide Fate Of 'Advocate,' Defunct Since 1943 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Department of government have always been focal points for tension and fluidity within academic institutions. The genuine need for alertness to new trends, the constant demand for viewpoints that are tuned to the minute have made this field one of the most difficult to teach and administer. A government department, as a unit, must never cease its labors lest it fall behind its dynamic subject. At Harvard, not only the subject matter but the tremendous numbers of new concentrators have strained the ingenuity of members of the department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State of the College | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

...center of gentility and wealth as opposed to the rowdier patronage of the Oxford Grille and Cronin's Bar. White-coated waiters circulate through small smoky rooms amidst photographs of athletic greats of years gone by, and generations of Elis have left their marks on the old wooden tables. Focal point of the club, of course, is the Whiffenpoof table, where congregate those who made Mory's famous, the names of all past Whiffenpoofs being stylishly inscribed thereon...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Elis of Two Centuries Shun Ways of Crimson's Radicals | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

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