Word: action
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also decided to start action against the Navy ROTC loyalty oath...
...Action on the loyalty oath, which the Council has been investigating for four weeks, will be in the form of a recommendation to be sent to President Conant, Provost Buck, and Dean Bender. The recommendation will "urge" that the University administrators "employ every means at their disposal" to secure the elimination of certain Navy oath requirements for reserve students which the Council feels to be "in conflict with the free and unhampered exchange of ideas in a free academic society...
Then two Council members tried to destroy the quorum and hence invalidate any more Council action by walking out of the room. A quorum remained, however, and a roll call vote favored the adoption of the rule by a vote...
There will be two big men missing from each team's lineup tonight. For Harvard, second line center Lew Preston, who pulled a leg muscle last week, is still out of action. Fortunately for the varsity, the Eagles will be without the services of all-American defenseman Butch Songin is playing quarter-back this week in the North-South football game...
...first action that the clubs will be asked to take is a joint petition asking the University to work against the oath. In this respect the representatives who met Saturday cited as the basis for their recommendation, the CRIMSON editorial which appeared that...