Word: petitioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over a year later, however, Columbia's administration took the powers back again. A few weeks ago, the student council approved a petition of the Marxist Group for a speech by Gus Hall, one of 11 Communists on trial for violating the Smith Act.
Indignation mounted. One hundred thirty-nine out of 250 students signed a petition refusing to return unless the administration monded its ways. Some 50 students signed a petition expressing their loyalty to the administration.
He charged that his political affiliation was responsible for the failure of the administration to renew his contract. This was denied by John W. Long, Lycoming's president. Over 100 students out of a student body of 900 signed a petition asking for Athearn's reinstatement, but the authorities took...
Since the neighbors didn't object to the nature of Conrad's work, William L. Galvin, chairman of the Board of Appeals, suggested that if Conrad should drop his petition, he would be allowed to work unmolested. Conrad wanted security, however, and refused to withdraw his petition.
The purpose of the petition to the Deans for power to review charters of all Harvard organizations, according to Council President Robert L. Fischelis '49, is "to make sure that by amendment these organizations have not changed their charters from what the Council and Deans had approved in earlier years...