Word: hyrc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Executive Committee has become, in a short time, quite liberal. In 1960 HYRC members marched on Mount Auburn Street to protest what was termed Adlai Stevenson's "appeasement" in a speech he had delivered on the then-recent summit failure. It wouldn't happen today. HYRC ers are still more conservative politically than their Democratic counterparts but, in many cases, not much more. And there is nothing too exciting, nothing to generate member interest, in being fairly liberal at Harvard today...
...Salzen came to the presidency of the club in 1964, a bad year for Republicans. Goldwater is only partially to blame for the decline in the HYRC which began that year. The Republican Party may have recovered from the debacle of '64, but the club...
...HYRC set up a Special Committee of Law School Republicans to investigate the elections and to report to the Student Council. In the meantime, Dean Watson denied rumors that outside pressure had been brought to bear on him not to take any formal action against the club. Rumors had been circulating throughout the University that interested undergraduates had sent letters to wealthy Republicans asking that they exert economic pressure on the University's then current fund drive...
...Review will contain articles by Republicans who have spoken at Harvard, reports of HYRC committees, and writings by undergraduate Republicans...
...first issue, will tentatively include articles by Robert Taft Jr., Winthrop Rockefeller, and William Rusher, a former president of the HYRC who is publisher of the National Review. Taft, Rockefeller, and Rusher have all spoken at Harvard this spring...