The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921: Origins of the Modern American Student Movement by Max Horn

Author:Max Horn [Horn, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9781000302509
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Goodreads: 51869339
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

* An examination of official Socialist party records, particularly the Youth and YPSL Papers, turned up no evidence of an organic connection between the party and the ISS. The collection is known as the Socialist Party of America Papers and is in the Duke University Archives, Durham, North Carolina.

* One observer estimates that by 1908 three hundred Protestant clergymen were members of the Socialist party. See Dexter Perkins, The American Way (Ithaca, N.Y., 1957), p. 91.

* The children and their parents were attacked by the police before the children could board the train that was to take them to safety.

* “There are a few Socialists here,” wrote a student at the University of North Carolina in March 1913, “who desire to get in touch with the Intercollegiate.” IS 1 (Spring-Summer 1913), 18. Nothing seems to have come of it at that time.

* This is not to suggest that faculties everywhere either countenanced the organization of ISS chapters or cooperated wholeheartedly once they existed. One obvious reason for faculty opposition was distaste for socialism; another reason was the desire to retain local control over student groups. For example, some students at Valparaiso College who wanted to organize an ISS chapter reported that the faculty was opposed, “presumably” because it did not like any campus group having ties with groups in other colleges, much less with a national organization. Cited by Laidler in “Report to Executive Committee Meeting of Feb. 12, 1912,” Reports of Organizing Secretary, ISSP.

* At its annual convention in December 1913, the ISS initiated an effort to link arms with the European socialist student movement. William English Walling described its growth and proposed that an international conference of radical students be held either in Vienna or Brussels the following summer. Upon motion by President Stokes the convention authorized Dr. Herbert Kuhnert, the delegate from the Free Students of Munich, Germany, to contact the British Inter-University Socialist Federation and its counterparts on the continent to make preliminary arrangements with those willing to participate. Plans were completed to hold the conference in Vienna in August 1914, but the outbreak of the European war put and end to die scheme.

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