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...Committee on Temporary Suspensions is supposed to replace last term's Subcommittee of Six, to exercise jointly with the Dean of the Faculty the power of temporarily suspending students "found to be engaging in activities unacceptable under the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities" pending permanent disciplinary acton...
...Acton, Mass...
...appeal was made by Richard M. Boardman, 26, of Acton, who was convicted of draft evasion last April and was sentenced to three years in prison...
LESS well remembered than Lord Acton's celebrated aphorism about the corrupting effects of power is his dictum that "Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity." Carl Jung agreed that "all personal secrets have the effect of sin or guilt." These statements aptly define the attitude of a democratic society-particularly the U.S.-toward its leaders. The man in public life has a private life that is not exclusively his own. It is assumed that the people's right to know includes the right to know all, or almost...
...alcohol. But Emily and Anne were busily writing poems and novels. Charlotte not only joined them but also took over as their agent; within two years, she had engineered the publication of a joint collection of poems and three novels: Wuthering Heights, by Ellis Bell (Emily), Agnes Grey, by Acton Bell (Anne) and Jane Eyre, by Currer Bell (Charlotte). The poems and the first two novels flopped; Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller...