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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appear to be having too much fun, though. They'll accuse you of not taking the game seriously enough. Don't criticize the other team, either. It's bound to be full of Kennedys too, and the Kennedys don't like that sort of thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Kennedy was already zeroing in on the 1952 race against Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., ordered his secretary to accept speaking engagements only outside his own district. There was not really much difference between the politics of the two: Kennedy, in many ways, was a conservative sort of Democrat, and Lodge was a liberal Republican. Kennedy accused Lodge of Senate absenteeism and Lodge accused Kennedy of House absenteeism (both were right). Kennedy's slogan was "Kennedy Will Do More for Massachusetts," and Lodge's was "Lodge Has Done-and Will Do-the Most for Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...look sort of shabby...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Horses of the Night | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...This sort of favorable response to the transfer student is characteristic of the University Administration. The person who is admitted as a transfer student to Harvard from another college is very carefully screened and academically ranks above the University average. Twenty-three men were admitted as transfers this fall, 33 last year, and only...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Transfer Students: How Many and Why | 11/29/1957 | See Source »

...curious thing--there was sort of an intellectual something there, and everyone developed a certain culture by osmosis. Osmosis seems much stronger in the Houses; there is an opportunity to get much more out of college life at Harvard than there used...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Visiting Novelist | 11/29/1957 | See Source »

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