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Ralph I. Petersberger '55, Robert M. O'Neil '56, and Joseph E. Frank '56 successfully defended the affirmative of the same topic against Princeton's Whig-Cleosophic Society...
Perry G. E. Miller and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professors of American Literature and History, respectively, both conceded that Davy was a brave "Injun fighter" and "b'ar hunter," as the popular song claims. But as a Congressman, they said, Crockett was a willing stooge used by the Whig Party to counter the popular appeal of the Democrats' Andrew Jackson...
...King of the Wild Frontier's real story, according to Miller and Schlesinger, is different from the words of the ballad and the Times. Davy, it seems, was an ordinary soldier in Tennessee when the Whig Party, defeated by President Jackson, decided that it, too, needed "someone in a coonskin cap who was a man of the people...
Other universities have prevented this stagnation by forming political discussion groups to enable students to break away from their lecture environment and speak out for themselves. Time-honored organizations like Yale's Political Union, Oxford's Union, and Princeton's Whig-Cliosophic Society--all numbering over 300 in membership--are reminders of potential student interest in expressing as well as absorbing ideas...
MELBOURNE, by Lord David Cecil, the second and final volume of one of the finest biographies in many years, described the life and times of England's last big Whig, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister...