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...call, which was issued by the executive committee of the Conference, is for a National Conference on Students in Politics to determine whether the NRA means recovery, retrogression or revolution; whether another world war is imminent; and whether students have a responsibility in these matters. The purpose of the Conference is to convene a widely representative group of college and university students to consider the urgent issues of our time in the light of the political interests and responsibilities of the student classes. "Students of America are becoming aroused to the necessity of political consciousness," states the call. "This conference...
Harvard lost to Princeton Monday night in the debate at Meriden, Connecticut by a two to one decision. The Harvard team contended that the disadvantages of the NRA outweighed the advantages and questioned the legality of the administration's procedure...
Princeton maintained that the NRA has already produced a higher social order and has provided employment for millions. The debaters on the winning team were Edwin S. Carney, Gordon A. Craig, and Edward F. Pritchard: Harvard's team consisted of Julius S. Bach, Jr. '36, Morris J. Litwack '36, and George Gore...
...Lowell, who has long been an advocate of government censorship, was invited to serve as one of the three President's representatives on the motion picture NRA code authority, "in order to observe the operations of the engagement of the industry itself to comply with its own rules of censorship of improper pictures and dialogue...
Eight, clarification at an early date of the part the government is to play in the various code authorities to be set up under the NRA so that the relation of government to the profit-making system may clear up doubts as to future tax revenues...