Word: subverters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denunciation of the law of the survival of the fittest recently made by zoologists William L. Brown Jr. and Edward C. Wilson is indeed disturbing. Claiming that jungle ants can abide each other after all, the zoologists are seeking to subvert a time-tested law of the universe. If there is any basis in their theory of "character displacement," it will mean that all existing philosphies will have to be rethought. Everyone knows that science determines the nature of the prevalent world view. In the eighteenth century Newton forced Alexander Pope to write in rhyming couplets, and in the nineteenth...
...faculty speakers were obtained after Republican Senator Styles Bridges (N.H.) refused to appear before the Forum. His cancellation provoked charges by Forum members that John R. Thomson '56, president of the Young Republican Club, which has not joined the Forum, had interfered and tried to subvert the group...
...Student Council last night defeated a petition by William C. Brady '57 asking for administrative action against students who subvert the activities of undergraduate organizations. In effect, this action meant dismissing alleged subversion charges against John R. Thomson '57, HYRC president...
...accusations leveled against John R. Thomson '57, president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, for his alleged attempts to subvert the Political Forum will receive a formal hearing at the Student Council's Monday meeting, it was learned last night...
These actions to undermine the activities of two groups flatly contradict the common-sense rules that should govern College groups. Above-board disagreement and rivalries are fine, but underhanded efforts to subvert another club's speakers and activities should certainly be prohibited. This is so obvious that it should not have to be repeated, but evidently there are those presently leading College organizations who do not accept common standards of fair play. If every group employed tactics similar to those of the Republican head, student activities would find speakers leaving Harvard to its bickering politicos...