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enlarged its scope to addressing society at large. They also presented their new guiding principle: "Education for a New Social Order Based on
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of the 1930s led to an increase in radical student activism. The collegiate section was reorganized into an autonomous
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with the stated purpose of throwing "light on the world-wide movement of industrial democracy known as socialism."
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