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...with other Harvard graduates to form the Free Soil Party. College politics then became tangled for a few years; the Board of Overseers, for instance, was a strange mixture of Northern Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. But by 1860, the dominant Republican sentiment, which has lasted down to the present, was clear. A poll of the Class of 1860 turned up nine Democrats, 23 Constitutional Unionists, and 74 Republicans. The Unionists held the College's first torchlight parade shortly before election that year, carrying signs such as "Bell (the party candidate) and the Belles, 1860, Harvard...
...surprising that the question of a war memorial should have come to the present issue as between a simple but dignified recording of the names of the dead in the Memorial Church and a building in which a similar record would he associated with some daily use by the student body. There are obvious alternatives on the merits of which there is a natural difference of opinion...
...permanence in a constantly changing world. The history of Harvard buildings throws light on this point. Old Gore Hall that for the better part of a country was the College Library was a memorial of Governor Christopher Gore; yet it had to give place to another memorial--the present Widener Library. Gore's name was transferred to a supposedly permanent Freshman dormitory which later became a part of Winthrop House. McKinlock Hall was a memorial to a Harvard here of the first World War, with every intention to keep it as a Freshman dormitory; but when the Houses were built...
...members to the speaker's platform for candidates. Two Truman supporters, one speaker each for Wallace and Dewey, and one protest speaker will air their views. In New Haven tonight the Harvard debating team will back Truman, while their comrades here take the Republican side. Students for Thomas will present a C.I.O. speaker for the Socialist candidate in Harvard Hall tonight...
...other hand, students have been unable to present any specific complaints that will stand up under Hygiene Department scrutiny. Perhaps this inability to find specific flaws in the University's medical program is an indication that the generalized complaints are unjustified. Or perhaps it merely results from the fact that students just do not have enough knowledge of the problems of running a clinic to criticize competently the current medical setup...