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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afternoon and evening discussion groups covered various aspects of the general topic. "The World Student and UN." One 30-man panel considered "UNESCO and International Student Exchange" under the chairmanship of Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy and Associate Director of the Harvard College Directory (above...
...essential object of these groups is to arouse interest in their respective views, an aim which occasionally gives birth to a rally. Last week's "Save The Peace" meeting, although a "non-political" rally, serves to illustrate the point. Faced with the probability of periodical requests by the various groups for permission to hold such rallies, the Administration has found itself face to face with a question of policy: on what conditions shall permission to hold rallies be granted? This is a problem that has needed consideration for some time, and if its increased urgency at present can bring about...
...College's traditional democratic attitude towards undergraduate organizations that any group of students should be allowed to hold a rally, so long as representatives of the group agree to assume responsibility for keeping the rally peaceable. As for the where and the when, these are issues over which various and complicated arguments can arise, such as whether or not the Yard may be used, or whether or not rallies ought to be held during classes. But the fundamental point that both the Council, in its recommendations, and the Administration, in its final set of rules, must bear in mind...
Balloting will also be held for Vice-President, but according to Rusher, "The presidential nomination is the real prize that the various Republican organizations are trying to garner for their favorite candidates...
Meanwhile, the Army and the Reclamation Bureau were steadily working out their plans. Early in 1946, they set up an unofficial inter-agency committee, and held conferences with governors of various states. By November, the committee had been able to agree on plans for 105 dams and reservoirs, and Major General Pick said that the job could be done in 10 years--if Congress would appropriate the money. November was the month, however, of the elections in which the Republicans took over both Houses, and large sums of money for such a Federal project were out of the question...