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There is to be held this afternoon in Phillips Brooks House a "Hoover for President" meeting. This is the first active manifestation of politics that has appeared at the University for some time. Such meetings perform a great service in the broad minded development of college men. We hope that this meeting will be the forerunner of subsequent ones, indicative of interest in current political issues...
...meeting for the purpose of organizing the Hoover League of Harvard will be held Wednesday afternoon in the Phillips Brooks House at 4.30 o'clock under the auspices of several undergraduates and Law School men. The purpose of the club will be to support Hoover for the Presidential nomination, regardless of party lines, and its membership is open to the entire University, faculty and students. At the meeting Wednesday Professor F. W. Taussig and others will speak and an executive committee will be chosen...
Senator Reed has distinguished himself in the Senate by a protracted attack against Herbert Hoover. Charging him with the arch-offense (from Mr. Reed's point of view) of being kindly disposed toward Great Britain, he expressed grave apprehension concerning the possibilities of British domination over the United States in the League of Nations during the Hoover administration. In the Sunday Advertiser a critic who is less well-known as well as less self-contained, divides a whole page between assailing Admiral Sims for alleged pro-British activity and libelling our recent ally...
Then it turns its attentions to murders, divorces, and Mr. Jenkins, and leaves the "laws of economics" and the politicians to punish the guilty ones and meet the future. It allows the "laws of economics" to set prices; it discovers that Mr. Hoover can set prices better than the "laws of economics"; it dismisses Mr. Hoover, and like a pettish child disposes of its railroads because, forsooth, it has not learned to run them. And this is the amorphous djinn to which we believers in democracy cheerfully trust our salvation...
...farewell address to the British people; 'Leave Russia alone, remove the blockade, adopt a policy of Gallio-like impartiality to all factions.' This is exactly where we stand; we believe that the only part we should take in Russia's affairs is relief work, such as Mr. Hoover did in Belgium...