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...order to include all undergraduate possibilities, the new Union must be absolutely non-denominational, neither Communistic, nor Socialistic, nor New Republican, nor Industrially Democratic, nor Democratic, nor Republican, nor Conservative, nor Liberal, nor Tory, nor Mugwump, nor Right, nor Wrong. Probably this "must" could best be carried through by parliamentary organization, such as has been attempted before by the Liberal Club, but with definite rules to allow at all times, a motion from the floor, carried by a two-thirds vote, that the speaker be stopped, or that the question in discussion be changed, subject always to previous motions that...
...Critic" is still the mugwump of Harvard journalism, still does not quite fit in with the established bi-party system. In its brief career it has shown its willingness to be independent, which will perhaps appear to the routine-minded as a willingness to be inconsistent. Mr. George Haskins in a very able introductory editorial does make an effort to knit together the "Critic's" past and its present, even to the point of not altogether repudiating last year's famous questionnaire; but on the whole this number of the "Critic" strikes out for itself unfettered by tradition...
...silver-rimmed spectacles his blue eyes are spring cool. Thin-lipped, with a slow, warm, easy smile, he talks softly in a rich baritone. He is an unspectacular but able public speaker, much in demand. For an opener he can generally get a laugh with this old chestnut: "A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other." In personal life Harold Dodds might be any one of 10,000 college professors, except that he has no children. For fun and exercise he plays golf; a 90 delights...
...cousin, Ogden Livingston Mills, conspicuously printed: "Miss Lucy Randolph Mason, general secretary of the National Consumers' League . . . said that she had been so impressed by Governor Winant's address that although I've never voted the Republican ticket I'd like to turn Mugwump and nominate him for President.' " Taking the cue, the Times man covering the address apostrophized the speaker as one "who has been mentioned for the Republican nomination for the Presidency...
Died. Richard Rogers Bowker, 85, publisher, author, retired utilitarian; at his home near Stockbridge, Mass. Indefatigable in 19th Century politics, he founded the ''Mugwump'' Party (first called the ''Young Scratchers") which swung the 1880 Republican convention to Garfield. He founded the American Library Association...