Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in years, Oxford was represented not only by eights drawn from a particular college but by crews drawn from almost the entire University. In both events, Isis was largely an unknown quantity and avoided brushes and publicity, largely due to the discretion of Isis coach Group Captain "Jumbo" Edwards...
...report noted that the group was "inevitably caught up in the exuberent spirit of cooperation among nations which had joined in the successful struggle against the Aixs powers." The Prague twenty-four returned to the United States convinced that America must be represented...
There is no doubt that there were several Communist party members and fellow travellers among the twenty-four, but most were simply swept up by the energy of the European student groups. Most were unaware of the Russian Communist plot to create the organization, then subvert it and turn it into a front for Communist propaganda. The existence of that plot was confirmed several years later by a man who had been working with Allied intelligence in Austria. He told an NSA national officer that he had found out plans of the Communist group, which urged the formation...
...order to continue contact with world-wide student movements, as well as to strengthen the free world's ISC, asserts the "liberal" wing of NSA, American students should continue to accept world-wide student issues as their own. The more conservative group which favors the textual meaning of the moderately-worded resolutions, frequently contributes negative votes on the grounds that as a student organization the NSA lacks the qualifications to judge an issue...
...group also feels that creating a permanent Student Council committee on NSA will arouse student discussion of the issues to be taken up at the Congress and thereby help to solve the problem of representation. It is also suggested that the Council hold a meeting every spring to provide a sounding board for student opinion on these topics...