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...Robart, member of Cambridge School Committee, "I told you that I seen signs of Communism."... R. M. Russell '14, Mayor of Cambridge, "I made no such statement. But the figures are correct."... Peregrine White '33, president of Phillips Brooks House, "We will be glad to cooperate." ... A. N. Holcombe '06, "I can see no plausible reason why this should have any detrimental influence on the aggrandizement of Japan in the disputed area in the Liaotung Peninsula." ... W. S. Sims, Jr. '33, ex-president of the CRIMSON, "The continue lines are wrong." ... F. D. Roosevelt '04, former Harvard man, "I wanted...
Less than a week ago Mr. Robart of the Cambridge School Board denounced the "meddlers" whom he found were laden with advice always, but with donations rarely. His views, no doubt, coincided with those of a goodly number of citizens in university towns who have come to the conclusion that many professors can write and discourse most indefinitely on problems without offering very concrete solutions or material...
...confound Mr. Robart, there now comes the announcement of the formation of a Harvard faculty committee to assist in the work of Cambridge unemployment relief. Aid is offered in the tangible medium of service and currency. The committee premises complete cooperation with Cambridge authorities in soliciting contributions from the faculty for the purpose of alleviating the condition of the unemployed. In short, it does not conform to Mr. Robart's idea of a university committee, and faculty members of Harvard would do well to further destroy Mr. Robart's rather mistaken conception by contributing to the neighborhood relief fund...
Mayor Quinn's chief qualification for office is the fact that he has held his post, for better or worse, a whole decade. At one time h eattefpted to exterminate mosquitoes, thereby endearing himself to the populace. Shea and Robart gain Harvard's attention by placing their campaign headquarters at either end of the yard. Councilor Russell is a Harvard man and the son of former Governor Russell, one of Massachusetts' few Democratic chief magistrates...
...means many members of the Harvard Faculty--will go to the polls to select two of the sterling quartet, who will compete in the final election in November. Indications now point to the choice of Quinn and Russell at the primaries. That at least will mean a cessation of Robart torchlight parades, and of processions of small children chanting "Yea, yea, we want Shea!" Harvard Square will lapse into its customary quiet non-political atmosphere, and only the Faculty and the local students who have assumed the heavy burden of citizenship will lie awake worrying, worrying...