Word: hyrc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, there are powerful pressures not to join. Campus politics is thought a "dirty game," and in some cases the belief is as justified as it is widespread. Spectacles such as the "coup" to overthrow the Council to Study Disarmament, and the vitriolic election battles within the HYRC can only arouse disgust, or perhaps amusement...
Once called the "West Point of the Republican Party," the HYRC lists 160 members, 20 of whom "would come in and do anything for us." Though the club is most famous for what its president calls "our annual circus," elections are calming down, and candidates are no longer allowed to import a hoard of friends just before balloting time...
Dedicated to "training young people capable of becoming leaders of Republican thought," the HYRC's activities--those that there are--range from "political workshops" to occasional speeches. "There's a crying need for a more balanced program," said president Chris Bayley '60, "and we must encourage more participation on an intellectual level...
...splinter off the HYRC-controlled "Students for Eisenhower" in 1956, the Eisenhower Club today claims 35 members, only eight of whom are "activists." Though the HEC has "bitterness of its own," according to president Eliot Bernat '60 it provides "a Republican alternative to the factionalism which dominates all the state-chartered political groups" at the College. Because of its limited membership, the HEC is not "frightfully active," and finds itself "unable to draw a decent audience" for its speakers...
With support from the freshmen, the largest group in the HYRC, Charles W. Long '62, of Pennypacker Hall and Dover, easily defeated the administration candidate, Bruce P. Shields...