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Gleason's prototype in the College is William Cotter '58, president of the Harvard Young Democratic Club. The HYDC, having pooled its membership list with that of the HLU and the Students for Stevenson, has been doing much the same canvassing and pre-registration work in Cambridge as the other Democratic clubs. Its membership, now nearly 200, has also contributed to the Holtz campaign in Brighton, Brookline, and Newton. Aside from door-to-door canvassing, some workers participated in an opinion poll of Tenth District voters, to determine what issues Holtz might use to best advantage in his campaign there...
Perhaps, the most important contribution which the new executive board has made to political work in the college, is the publication of a mimeographed newspaper entitled The Democratic Review. The paper, which is distributed to every room in the college is the HYDC's hope to balance the effect of the Harvard Times-Republican. As the editorial board becomes more experienced, it plans to develop the paper into more of a vehicle for political commentary with less emphasis on straight news writing...
More than 8,000 students will be voting today in the University-wide election poll sponsored by the CRIMSON in conjunction with the HYRC, HYDC, the Radcliffe News, the Harbus New and political clubs at several graduate schools...
Despite the efforts of William Cotter '58, president of the HYDC, to argue issues with the HYRC head, Don Hodel '57, ranging from farm policy to civil rights, the emphasis of the debate shifted to the two parties' views of the Stevenson suggestion...
...majority of Democratic volunteers are out-of-staters, according to John Ciampa, Jr., temporary president of the HYDC. There have even been volunteers from Canada, the Virgin Islands, and Greece...