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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good deal of inquiry has arisen during the past few weeks over the relation of the "Crimson" to the H-Y-P Conference of Public Affairs. From certain members of the Faculty comes the cry that we should invite students in the graduate schools. From individuals in the graduate schools comes the criticism that the discussion matter is too general. And from members of the undergraduate body we receive recurrent hints that the "Crimson" is running the whole show purely as a publicity stunt. The "Crimson" is anxious to make its position in the Conference clear...
...provide one-third. A majority of the Harvard quota will be filled with undergraduates exclusive of "Crimson" editors, and this fact alone should eliminate any fear of prospective attendants and Faculty that they will be "frozen out" by publicity-hunting gentlemen of the press. In many ways the H-Y-P Conference is unique in the advantage it offers to the interested undergraduate. It provides him with the chance to meet a highly representative cross-section of the leaders of our country. In digesting their empirical ideas he is better able to estimate the real worth of his studies...
...object to make the point clear that the H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs is not a monopoly of the "Crimson", or the undergraduate dailies, but primarily an undergraduate function. First-rate speakers have been selected to attend the tables, and money to finance the various expenses has been adequately supplied by generous alumni. The success of the Conference now lies in the undergraduates who take advantage of their opportunity...
This week Elihu Root would be 92. From his home in Clinton, N. Y., his birthplace, after services in the chapel at Hamilton College where his father taught mathematics, where he was graduated the year Sherman marched to the sea, he was borne to his grave...
...Cortland, N. Y., seeing a newspaper photograph of a pair of cows stranded on a raft, Farmer Harold Griswold added to his flood relief contributions of potatoes and cabbage, one bale...