Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...zenith of Radcliffe political activity came in 1948 with 11% of the student body enrolled in partisan clubs. The nadir stretched from 1920 to 1939 when there were no political clubs...
...League set itself up as an Independent non-partisan club and with the Harvard Liberal Union devoted some attention to "postwar problems" in jointly organized study groups...
...vote, and birth control. They also wanted to raise teacher's pay, were usherettes at a Roosevelt Day dinner, and dispatched delegates to various conventions. The SDA would have little to do with the HLU and refused the latter's offer to hold a joint dance. The other partisan groups did nothing without Harvard...
...Council executive board, in an attempt to revitalize 'Cliffe politics, suggested that all remaining groups combine in a non-partisan organization, reminiscent of the 1914 Civics Club and the 1940 League for Democracy. While the Progressives approved the proposal, SDA rejected the entire idea...
They have treated him as a political cipher--Cunningham displaying extraordinarily bad taste, others with somewhat more respect, Fast with reverence and fury--failing completely to treat his death apart from its possible political significance. They have distorted and misconstrued the fact of his death for their own partisan purposes...