Word: hydc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Young Democratic Club has had a rather unhappy history. In 1948, for example, club members, after endorsing the Democratic slate, discovered that their president was a rabid Dewey supporter. Only after much bitterness and counter-charging was the Deweyite impeached. The HYDC quietly died following election day, and remained buried until last spring when some Democrats resurrected...
...expected anything unusual from the group. Its place among college organizations seemed obvious: it would support the Democratic nominee, whoever he be, and follow party policy to the letter. For president HYDC members elected a down-the-line Democrat; they elected a five-man voting executive board, and the president later appointed two other members without voting powers. Then trouble started. Two Texans on the executive board decided they could not support Stevenson...
...last person we expected to find among the dissentious Young Democrats was the Associate Dean of Harvard College. Yet, barely twenty-four hours after the HYDC split in two, Dean Watson stepped in and, reminiscent of a Wild West story, announced that the College was not big enough for both of them. Apparently the Currey faction has no right to official status if it parallels its parent group on policy or candidates...
...despite the gag overtones, the pointlessness of parallelism, and the dubious ethics involved in pillaging the HYDC's treasury, Watson's threat is unsettling. If fulfilled, it would set a precedent incompatible with the Harvard theory of education, a theory which includes as one of its essential features the freedom of students to form unencumbered their own organizations. No matter how illogical the situation, or how tongue-in-cheek its perpetrators, the Dean's Office has no business concerning itself with anything more than enforcing the rules...
Panic struck at 2 p.m. Dever had not been right behind the advance car and a rumor that he had been seen near Kirkland House spread among the politicos. Then, just on the hour, a HYDC agent pedalled up furiously on a light-weight bike. "I just spoke to a cop," he reported to Tobin, "and the cop says he saw Dever's car going up to the Law School. The cop says Dever is going to speak at the Law School...