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Since the HYRC has used your advertising columns for the unique purpose of intemperate personal attacks upon myself and upon the integrity of the Liberal Union, may I be given the opportunity to set the record straight? These irresponsible charges of "publicity stunt" and "political charlatans" leveled at the HLU for its advocacy of a Coolidge-Dever debate were those that the CRIMSON had the good taste not to print in accounts of the planned meeting. The failure of the Republicans to induce Mr. Coolidge to appear at Harvard to debate the Governor appears to have called forth from...
...Fully three weeks ago, Governor Dever's office informed me that the Governor would accept the HLU's invitation to meet his opponent in a public debate at the University. Although he had had many more speaking commitments than Mr. Coolidge, he considered this engagement of such importance that he offered us two crucial campaign dates...
...wonder whether the above facts constitute "lame excuses . . . fakery had moral bankruptcy" by the HLU? Such charges are reflective of an unfortunate defensive state of mind engendered by the HYRC's embarrassment at their candidate's reluctance to appear at Harvard. How cynically can the truth be distorted to make it appear as the reverse? Roy F. Gootenberg...
...H.Y.R.C. made its suggestion in a letter to the HLU claiming that "men at Harvard have insufficient opportunity to compare the stands which each party takes on current problems." It urged the H.L.U. to name three of its members to a six-man committee which would arrange the forum...
...labor referenda, getting out the vote, and birth control. They also wanted to raise teacher's pay, were usherettes at a Roosevelt Day dinner, and dispatched delegates to various conventions. The SDA would have little to do with the HLU and refused the latter's offer to hold a joint dance. The other partisan groups did nothing without Harvard...