Word: support
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already about 150 undergraduates and a large number of the members of the faculty have shown their support. Among the latter who have signed are the following: H. B. Bigelow '01, Raymond Calkins '90, G. H. Chase '96, W. E. Clark, R. W. Coues '95. A. T. Davison '05, W. S. Ferguson, F. McR. Findlay '22, Kuno Francke, C. J. Friedrich, R. S. Hillyer '17, A. N. Holcombe '06, G. E. Johnson, R. I. Loveli, C. H. McIlwain '03, P. H. Means '17, C. H. Moore '89, G. H. Parker '87, A. W. Samborski '26, F. W. Taussig...
Five States have Representatives-at-large because their small populations do not legally support more than one House member.* Only one State, Illinois, has two Representatives-at-large, in addition to 25 regular Congressmen tucked away in their own districts, because it is gerrymandered and does not choose to carve out two new districts, at the risk of upsetting Republican preponderance, to meet its exact allowance of House representation. Illinois' Representatives-at-large are sort of Class B Senators: their pay is the same and they are chosen by the same State-wide electorate. But on the House floor...
...yesterday's announcement of the proposed federation of the liberal political clubs of the university makes public the disinterest of the undergraduates in political discussion, and reveals the inability of the Liberal Club, as at present constituted, to maintain itself satisfactorily in the face of this lack of support, it seems but fair to call to the attention of those officers of the Liberal Club who go out of office this week, discouraged at their apparent failure, the significance of the Scott Nearing luncheon yesterday...
...these factions can meet, debate, and arrive at their several solutions for the problems of the world. Nothing could be more healthy, more stimulating, or more worthwhile. Unfortunately the difficulties confronting such a Utopian organization are tremendous. The various groups do not want to meet each other regularly. Support of the forum by one clique would immediately give it a touch of the plague in the eyes of the other sects...
...held would you support...