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Rara Avis Addresses Yalies; Collegiate World Unshaken
One morning last February, the Yale Daily News had frightening news for its readers. "A REAL LIVE AVOWED COMMUNIST spoke at Yale yesterday," it said in ominous capitals. Its front page showed a picture of the rara avis, actually the secretary of the New York State Communist party, docilly sipping coffee before addressing the Yale Political Union on the subject of the Smith Act.
The News could not help commenting editorially that "although he spoke last night, this morning the world in general and Yale in particular, appear unchanged."
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