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Meanwhile, in Tallahassee. Fla., the Negro leaders of a two-week-old bus boycott rejected some surprisingly moderate bus-company concessions, e.g., first come, first-served seating (but no side-by-side mixing of Negroes and whites), hiring of Negro drivers on predominantly Negro runs. Instead, they demanded complete abolition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Battle of the Buses | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

i.e.'s excoriation of the University is based upon two invalid assumptions: that discipline of any kind invariably contradicts intellectual freedom and that prestige-consciousness cuts off creativity at the bud. On these assumptions, i.e. urges a thorough revision of present concepts of the University, including fewer papers and the...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: i.e., the Cambridge Review | 6/1/1956 | See Source »

i.e.'s essential messages, if truisms, are still true--the individual is confronted with the problem of sex, and in the face of prestige-values it is a running fight to retain integrity. I submit, however, that there is very little that the University or any other institution can do...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: i.e., the Cambridge Review | 6/1/1956 | See Source »

Through the years local gourmets have made a variety of suggestions for relieving chronic indigestion and starvation, ranging from abolition to Hayes-Bickford. This year a low ebb in gastronomic satisfaction precipitated another investigation, by well-meaning, if hungry Student Council Members.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Financing | 5/23/1956 | See Source »

Despite a decisive majority supporting the abolition amendment, the required two-thirds majority may be difficult.

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Freshman Union Committee Moves for Smoker Abolition | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

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