Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outlining the purpose of his organization, Gordon stated, "Never before has the need for a strong progressive movement been felt so clearly throughout the country. As responsible students we shall join that movement, and shall fight on all fronts to protect our democracy and at the same time to extend it and make it grow...
Roughly, the theory goes like this: regardless of issues and men, ever since the Revolution a pendulum has swung back and fourth, carrying the American people now into a liberal era, now into a conservative era; it is, to change the metaphor, a spiral movement going from a "period of change" into a "period of stabilization" and on into a new period of change, and so on; and--note this--each of these periods lasts, with one or two exceptions, from 12 to 16 years. Now I'm not saying that Schlesinger would feel he had to get up there...
Abolitionist Movement...
Dohramann K. Pischel '51, founder of the group, explained its formation with the comment that "it has become increasingly imperative to counteract the radical mobocracy movement." Already 13 students have joined the group...
Main purpose of the new organization will be to set up a "strong religious fellowship," through education and discussion gatherings, Albert A. Berman '49, a Icader in the movement, announced last night...