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But in the almost austere convention hall (no bunting, no parading brass bands) the convention had opened: strapping young Harold Stassen, the Minnesota boy Governor too young (33) to be President, had delivered the keynote speech. No orator, using gestures out of the book, huge Mr. Stassen handled his problem...
At Harvard, meanwhile, undergraduates and alumni began their commencement and reunions under agreement (at President James B. Conant's request) to avoid war arguments. They knew well that many an alumnus bitterly resented Harvard undergraduate pacifism. They listened politely to Secretary of State Cordell Hull as he called isolation...
On Class Day, Harvard's 5,000 alumni and undergraduates trooped merrily out to the Stadium for traditional fun-making. Placarded, costumed and loaded with ammunition for the traditional confetti battle, they laughed at a light-hearted speech by Ivy Orator Bayard S. Clark. Then up rose Davis R...
Yesterday morning during the solemn rites in the sunny Eliot Kirkland triangle the Class of 1940 applauded when the Senior Orator said that "America must not again by dragged into the anarchy that is Europe." Two bouts later, in the mardi-gras atmosphere of the Stadium, they booed the 1915...
Against this pattern of shifting loyalties the refusal of many Americans to rally to the "defense" of traditional American values can more readily be understood. Harvard Seniors, and countless thousands who feel as they feel, do not oppose necessary defense measures for America if they are necessary and only for...