The Intercollegiate Society of Individualists

Some people who for the first time are told about the national ISI think they are being guyed. How can there be a society of individualists? One may be reminded of an interesting exhortation by a paper to the members of the Federation of Iberian Anarchists, during the Spanish Civil War: “What Catalonian Anarchists need is better organization.” But though the choice of the Society’s name, nearly a decade ago, may have been injudicious, the Society’s reality in 1962 is indubitable and beneficial. The Society has taken for its purpose, expressed on its letterhead, “the advancement of conservative ideas on the campus.” The earnest and energetic Mr. Victor Milione, the Society’s executive director, has moved steadily to a practical and soundly conservative position; and under his guidance, ISI seeks to encourage students to think about the first principles of order and justice and freedom.

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Some people who for the first time are told about the national ISI think they are being guyed. How can there be a society of individualists? One may be reminded of an interesting exhortation by a paper to the members of the Federation of Iberian Anarchists, during the Spanish Civil War: “What Catalonian Anarchists need is better organization.” But though the choice of the Society’s name, nearly a decade ago, may have been injudicious, the Society’s reality in 1962 is indubitable and beneficial. The Society has taken for its purpose, expressed on its letterhead, “the advancement of conservative ideas on the campus.” The earnest and energetic Mr. Victor Milione, the Society’s executive director, has moved steadily to a practical and soundly conservative position; and under his guidance, ISI seeks to encourage students to think about the first principles of order and justice and freedom.

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