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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dismayed Her Crew . . . That night at Chicago Stadium he spoke before 20,000 Swedish-Americans who were celebrating the 100th anniversary of Swedish immigration to the Midwest. He pulled out that surefire issue-Communism-and used it as a sort of moral prop for his civil-liberties program, for slum clearance, old-age pensions, and higher minimum wages. The audience was friendly but calm...
...Wind that Blew . . . The President, however, acted exactly as if he were setting out on a triumph. "If I felt any better," he told reporters at Washington's Union Station, "I couldn't stand it." He seemed to be certain that he was embarking on a sort of political Sheridan's Ride, and that his straggling troops would wheel, cheer, and rally behind him as he crossed the continent. As he began making the first of many off-the-cuff, rear-platform speeches, he announced again and again and again, that he was certain to be reelected...
...Then I said, 'Mr. President, I would send for Harry Woodring and I would say to him, "Harry, it is either Dublin, Ireland, for you, or Topeka, Kansas."' The President looked at me, somewhat abashed. Reading his mind, I said, 'You can't do that sort of thing, can you, Mr. President...
...This sort of thing disturbed the administrators greatly, and for awhile they tried to keep the day of the exercises a secret until the last minute, but that didn't work at all. Then they passed rules saying that students had to come in sober, dark clothes, and forbidding them to consume distilled liquors or plum cake on the big day. They even had a clause against the eating of plain cake as an evasion of the law. There was nothing stopping wine or punch, however, and things went on as merrily as ever...
...wreath. This, surely, is progress. And in the nineteenth century President Lowell exulted "What a glorious object is a Senior on Class Day to a maiden of sixteen." Today, there will probably not be a girl under eighteen in Harvard Yard, and this, too, is progress. It is the sort of progress that can create confidence in the future of Harvard College and in the future--all the more unlimited because unnumbered--of the institution of Class...