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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dining Hall Committee, reported that 1,361 polls had been collected from students in the seven Houses. Sixty per cent voted in favor of 18 meals a week, while 18 per cent preferred taking only 14 meals a week, and 14 per cent favored no change in the present policy...
...Committee's report also included student criticism of the quality of the food in the Houses. Given the choice between better quality food but available in restricted amounts, or the present quality of food available in unlimited amounts, a majority, Dogherty said, favored better quality food...
...Gaulle's own greatness lies in his repeated challenge to them to prove their worth. The novelist and polemecist, Francois Mauriac, has well understood the nature of de Gaulle's present effort when he interpreted the General to mean: "When I will no longer be there, I will continue to serve you through the institutions I have given you, and I will protect you, as I have always wanted to, from the misfortunes you bring upon yourselves. For what is true of individuals is also true of nations: their character is their destiny...
This second group of Southern undergraduate opinion differs from the first chiefly in that it recognizes a problem in the present segregation practices of the South, yet generally disapproves of the current measures designed to abruptly end segregation...
...purposes of the club, according to Horne, are to present a "socialist world view" to Harvard students; to stimulate talk of socialism; and to provide a platform at Harvard for socialism advocates. Intended activities are: a speaker series, inter-and intra-club debates, and publication of current-events newsletters. Horne also suggested a fund-raising entertainment series...