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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following a vote of the entire board, the editors of the Crimson join in the boycott of the Club 100. In Harvard's past this question has never been shaped publicly. It is highly important that this single incident be settled in a way that will not cause lasting damage to the larger issue of racial amity. The speed with which the boycott can be applied, the force with which it can be effected, and the numbers that if will reach are all factors which will decide how quickly and satisfactorily this hurdle can be passed...
...Crimson inaugurated its campaign against tutoring schools on April 18, 1939, with a front page editorial and a refusal to take their advertising. Soon after other undergraduate publications joined in. On June 19 the Bureau of Supervisors was established by a faculty vote to combat the system with an official program. A year later, on May 21, 1940, another faculty vote made undergraduates liable to disciplinary action if they employed "the services of a commercial tutoring school." Although the battle had been largely won, the system did not die easily. Two days after the ban had been enacted, the Crimson...
...books and have chosen to keep it there. Far more vicious, it would seem to me, is the effort of a minority of the state's taxpayers run to the federal courts and upset by court ruling what the majority of taxpayers refuse to upset by majority vote. Francis Murphy Dunster...
...week's end a State Department note went to the British. State agreed, in principle, that the U.S. should assume the commitments in Greece. The final decision would be Congress', which must appropriate the funds. But there seemed to be little doubt that Congress would vote them in the end. Senate Republican Boss Bob Taft, for one, did not think $250 million was really very much in a budget of many billions...
Firing their ammunition well in advance of the May 20 election, the reformers pointed to Ben's political machine-a bloc of politicians, city employees and big businessmen who had exploited the city's complacency for years by splitting the opposition vote among several politically feeble candidates. They pointed to the dirty and rutted streets, the antiquated purchasing methods, the confusing street signs, the inadequate health and police and fire services as examples of Stapleton's do-nothing policy. And they wondered why a city of 380,000 should allow its mayor to appoint, and thereby...