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...said, "will seek to develop informal parliamentary debate on current political issues. We hope to have not only only Liberal and Radical groups represented in the Club, but also Conservative opinion so that all the various interests in the University may express their views. The model for such a forum may be found in the Yale Political Union. The Club will continue its policy of having outside speakers and forming study groups...
...panel including four Harvard professors will sit as a tribunal Thursday evening in a coronor's inquest to determine the murderer of democracy, alleged to be dead although unaware of it. The satire is the Ford Hall Forum's "annual impertinence" given at the banquet which closes its season. The chief guests will be President Conant and Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, whom the Forum terms "by practically unanimous consent, the noblest character in the public life of America...
Addressing to America a stirring appeal to save Europe and herself by turning to the principles of socialism, Harold J. Laski, professor of Political Science at the University of London and onetime Harvard Lecturer on Government, in turn inspired, amused, and enlightened a capacity audience in Ford Hall Forum last night...
This first meeting of the Forum was in the nature of an experiment, and the enthusiastic reception given by the audience gave the organizers the hope that forums may be organized as bodies speaking for and against a measure in Congressional form. Members of the audience last night took advantage of the opportunity offered to make suggestions on further organization...
...affirmative of the argument which finally forced Frederick deW. Bolman, Jr. '35, chairman of the Forum and chairman of the Debating Council, to call a halt to the hostilities, was taken by A. Gilman Sullivan '36, who maintained that abolition of censorship would "assure an avoidance of the decadence of the arts...