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2 unusual facts about Intercollegiate Socialist Society


Intercollegiate Socialist Society

Following these clubs, other affiliated socialist clubs were formed at Harvard University, Princeton, Bernard, New York University Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Rand School of Social Science

The Rand School maintained a close relationship not only with the Socialist Party of America proper, but also with the Intercollegiate Socialist Society and such trade unions as the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.


Harry W. Laidler

He is best remembered as Executive Director of the League for Industrial Democracy, successor to the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and for his close political association with perennial Socialist Party Presidential nominee Norman Thomas.

New York Call

While another successful fundraising fair was held in 1905, a growing range of new projects among New York Socialists, including the Rand School of Social Science, the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, the Christian Socialist Fellowship, and New York City elections in 1907 robbed the project to establish a daily Socialist newspaper of active supporters.


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