Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There seem to have been some slight misunderstandings in the ranks of the Republican Club. With election day little more than a month off and their competitors of rival political faith marshaled by men of campaign experience, prepared to strain every nerve in the coming contest, they find themselves without a constitution. Clubs, and political clubs of all others, without constitutions may fairly be considered rudderless, and reorganization seems the only remedy...
Whereas no constitution was adopted by the members of the Harvard Republican Club formed last spring, and whereas two of the officers elected at that time have severed connection with that club, in our opinion that club has ceased to exist and an opportunity should be given to the republicans in the University to reorganize on an active basis to further the interests of their party in the national campaign...
...Augustus Everett Willson, Kentuckian by birth and residence. Harvard Bachelor of Arts in 1869, a trusted and respected lawyer, in politics a Republican in a Democratic State, elected governor of Kentucky in 1907 for four years, after an energetic and troublous contest, a fearless, honest and disinterested public servant...
...Beta Kappa. he has held various positions up to Brigadier-General in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and was Lieutenant-Colonel and Inspector-General of the 7th Army Corps and of the Department of Havana. He has also been a delegate and officer of a number of Republican conventions. Owen Wister '82, LL.B. '88, also an editor of the Lampoon, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, is a writer whose books are known and admired on two continents...
...Washburn talked chiefly on what the college man has done in politics, especially in the Republican party. He advised all men intending to enter a political career to make themselves efficient in public speaking, citing the instances of some of the greatest orators, who only attained their eminence by hard, persistent work...