Word: hsu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definitions are valid--are absolute--because his views are at present in general agreement with those of the majority of the American people, whose views, by democratic principle, must be accepted as sovereign. But he asks, in accordance with this self-asserted divinity, that opposition (such as the HSU) be eliminated--as "termites". After which painless extermination it is hard to see how the free discussion essential to democracy would exist. On what basis could Franklin D. Roosevelt or William M. Wood claim then to represent the beliefs of a majority of the people, since without question of or vote...
Answering a plea from the HSU, Michael Widman, chairman of the Ford workers' organizing committee of the United Automobile Workers, has promised to send a representative from his committee who will defend the workers now striking at River Rouge...
...make certain that it really does represent the undergraduates, and in the long run this can be achieved only by democratic selection of committeemen. In the short run the committee, faced with the budget cut question, may achieve somewhat broader representation by enlisting the aid of PBK and the HSU's Committee to Advance Harvard Education; in doing so it will also avoid duplication of effort and working at cross purposes...
Backers of the movement for Faculty approval of the NYA at Harvard decided in a meeting last night to sever their connections with the HSU and all other committees, in an effort to make the issue purely one of the NYA's merits...
...David Bennett '42, recently elected President of the Harvard Student Union, no official address was made by his delegation to the Town Meeting of Youth. When the Liberal Union protested against opposition to the Administration's All-Aid policy, no reply was made, since the petition of the HSU had already been fully represented by other speakers...