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A poll last spring showed that three-fourths of the Princeton student body was opposed to the compulsory attendance. There does continue to be some support for the program. Students saw the abolition of the present policy as "eliminating a Christian influence from the lives of those who need it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Students Reopen Fight Against Compulsory Chapel Rules | 10/6/1951 | See Source »

It is hard to sum up a man who voted against his own party whenever he thought fit, and yet (as Pearson sadly admits) bequeathed to politics the tight "party-line" system that has plagued it ever since. No man did more than Dizzy to din radical notions into Tory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tory Story | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Mohammed and his birthplace owe a lot to each other. In his day - the 7th Century A.D. - Mecca was the main transfer point between southern Arabia and Syria. Mohammed, an or phan member of a major Meccan clan, entered the city's chief industry, cross-desert transport, and did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: THE MOSLEM WORLD | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

New German Danger? The increased readiness to rearm will go for nothing unless the Germans get Gleichberechtigung (equality of rights), i.e., removal of the last discriminatory restrictions on western Germany. Specifically, this would mean the abolition of the Allied nursemaid, the High Commission. Many Americans here feel sure that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: GERMANY: UP FROM THE ASHES | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

Morrison said that no action on the matter would be taken before next fall when he may move for abolition of the committee at a faculty meeting.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Freshman G. E. Course Slated for Debut Next Year | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

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