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Cynics who dislike political clubs at Harvard could take a kind of sad pleasure at a recent flurry of the HYDC. Shortly before the club's elections an angry young committee sent around a circular letter protesting "present conditions in the club," and attacking its executives for lack of purpose. Yet, despite this uproar, last night's election meeting, attended by 26 per cent of the club's members, voted in an entire slate of new officers unopposed. One can only conclude that nobody really means what he says in the HYDC...
...Committee distributed a newsletter to 200 members of the HYDC Saturday night in which it attacked "the lack of purpose of the club's executive board, the insouciance of the officers towards interested members of the club, and the promiscuous pre-professionalism of many current officers and candidates...
...time when the nation approved the New Frontier, the HYDC has remained lost in the woods," the circular claimed. A representative of the Committee said the executive committee has released practically no information on its activities during the past half-year...
Minot W. Tripp '61, outgoing president of the HYDC, said last night that "if the members of the Committee for Progress had done something for the club during the past year, they would have no cause to complain...
Dismissing the "promiscuous pre-professionalism" charge, Tripp said "it is very unlikely that anyone on the HYDC executive committee could gain anything from his office in future political activity...