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...Freshmen were most productive of dark horses, but Leverett House achieved the largest total for any one of the unlisted candidates, giving 10 votes to Roger W. Babson as a hangover from the resent whirlwind ballot-battle of Prohibitionist. Henry H. Morgan '41 Babson's total in the entire University...
...teachers are quick to resent interference with their political rights, like to play politics, sometimes run for elective offices. This fall many a teacher, like many another citizen, has exercised his time-honored right to take the stump. Last week a University of California legal officer threw a scare into such teachers with an opinion that if they were paid in part from Federal funds, the Hatch Act barred them from politics...
...undergraduates were quick to resent intimations that they were yellow or lacking in patriotism. On Class Day late in June, the entire Senior Class, dressed in caps and gowns and seated in the Stadium for Class Day exercises, loudly booed the 1915 Ivy Orator when he said, "We were not too proud to fight," and hinted that perhaps the Class of 1940 was not so humble...
...product of many factors. In part it is an idealistic point of view, specifically focussed on America. American culture and civilization have assumed an ever-larger place in the curriculum during the past few years, with President Conant heading the movement at Harvard. Undergraduates have tended to resent any plea to save England or France unless this were the only way to save America...
...part it is a realistic and cynical point of view. Students feel that we are repeating the steps this country followed in 1915-17, and are being drawn into another futile war to make the world safe for democracy. And they resent appeals to their altruism because they know that men can fight altruistically in bad wars as well as good ones...