Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since we live in the center of the "hot"-both politically and climatically-Middle Belt of Nigeria, we were interested in your report of the federal election campaign...
While guiding the University through the chaotic two decades of the First World War, the roaring twenties, and the slump of the Depression, he stepped up such a building campaign that the College was never without a corps of plumbers, plasterers, and heavy construction workers. Significantly, more University buildings were erected during his administration than in all of Harvard's previous history...
...projects for the College. Not only did he create and endow the Society; he supervised its operation and kept in close touch with its members, even after he had resigned the presidency, until his death in 1943. To him, the Society was the culmination and the end of his campaign to restore intellectual excitement to Harvard...
...campaign really was over. His "war with academic tradition" had been in large part won. The academic reforms he demanded in his inaugural had become realities, the Houses he envisioned had been built, and the academic freedom he championed had been established. Whether he had changed student attitude or the character of student society as much as he liked to believe is debatable; that he had changed the face of Harvard...
Your correspondent (CRIMSON, 12/3/1959) challenges readers to prove that Governor Rockefeller has betrayed his pre-election principles. This would be hard to do, since in his gubernatorial campaign Rockefeller avoided running on the national and international issues which he is now talking about...