Word: abstentionism
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Throughout the summer and fall, the great blue-and-white General Assembly hall had been under the rule of the jackhammer. The semicircular rows of gleaming oaken desks had to be rearranged to make room for the U.N.'s population explosion: 115 members this year, v. 99 in 1960...
The collapse came in the Chamber of Deputies over a negligible item in the budget-the provision of $238,000 in aid to private schools, which are mostly Roman Catholic. The Socialists, led by Veteran Pietro Nenni and, as always, anticlerical, abstained. But this time they were joined in their...
Such ad hoc decision-making can be dangerous. The University's political neutrality has safeguarded its political independence. Neither should be sacrificed casually. Civil rights is certainly a crucial political and social issue; but there have been other important causes and there will certainly be more. The University, as a...
Accepting this conscious framework of Ivy ethics, it is hard to understand the FCAS's apparent disinterest in encouraging other schools to adopt a similar position. During its four year abstention from tournament play, Harvard has made absolutely no attempt to convince other eastern schools that its NCAA stand is...
The unfortunate effect of this lofty silence has been to obscure the motivations behind the University's abstention from tournament play, is the Athletic Committee merely protecting Harvard from the "professionalism in spirit" it sees in the Western Hockey League; or is the FCAS trying to do something about the...