Word: partisanship
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Outbreaks of adolescence have never been a rarity at Yale, but the recital given by the Yale News early this week, when it pulled off the cloak of non-partisanship and announced itself for Roosevelt, was certainly the theme song of little boys reveling in their political coming...
...contrast, most newspaper cartooning of the campaign has been dismally lacking in fun. For oldtime jest and jibe, most cartoonists have substituted grim seriousness, sullen partisanship. A charitable explanation is that the Roosevelt-Landon campaign has been a confused, bad-tempered one, and cartoonists have simply reflected the temper of their editors and readers...
...threatened by a mental confusion such as the world has not seen since the last of the Roman legionaries were recalled from the borders of the Rhine. And Harvard, for all we know, may once again become a sort of intellectual stockade in the heart of a jungle of partisanship and greed...
...Connecticut's John Q. Tilson, one of the House's Big Three. As minority floor leader since 1931, he has kept up a steady fight against the New Deal and all its works. Yet he plays national politics according to the rules, does not allow his public partisanship to interfere with his private friendship with Democratic leaders off the House floor. When "Bert" Snell cracks his gavel down next June, Republican conservatives can be sure of the same iron-fisted service he gave in the same post four years ago at Chicago...
...political organization which hopes for support from the majority of Harvard students must fight to maintain a spirit of non-partisanship against all comers. The inevitable attempt at a radical coup d'etat should be ground under foot at its first budding, and the obvious failure of political bodies here in past years has been their inability to show this resistance...