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...When I came to Harvard, the school was in change,” Mansfield says. “There was a sort of division between high school and prep school graduates...
...national concern about communism grew and the Cold War began, Mansfield remembers an opposition to McCarthy that transcended bipartisan divisions...
...while the political climate at Harvard remained tranquil despite the outbreak of the Korean War, with little activism on campus, Mansfield says a clear shift in the political beliefs of undergraduates was beginning...
...political complexion changed due to this influx of high school students,” Mansfield says. “I remember in 1952, of course we couldn’t vote then, but there was a straw poll in which Eisenhower won over Stevenson. Then, in 1956, Stevenson won, and ever since then students have been liberal...
...straw poll, Mansfield had voted for the democratic Stevenson...