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...addition, the handout suggested that President Pusey appoint a committee to study the abolition of NROTC at Harvard, since the Navy's program "contains by virtue of its very purpose a substantial amount of propaganda and is these fore a threat to the University's high standards of objective scholarship...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Seering Audience Protests Showing Of Film on San Francisco Rioting | 11/29/1960 | See Source »

...George Mason, "as it would to refer a trial of colours to a blind man." The Constitutional Convention determined to put the choice in the hands of an elite, struck upon a system of electors that was a compromise between big and small states. Each state would "appoint" a number of electors equal to its total Congressmen and Senators. If no presidential candidate won a clear majority from the electors, the contest would go into the House of Representatives, where each state would have one vote in choosing a President-another concession to the smaller states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: REFORMING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Sourly. Seoul's daily Minkook Ilbo editorialized that the government might as well appoint students as "permanent advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: The Old College Try | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Instead, Robert G. McCloskey '88, professor of Government, moved that a Faculty committee be created to examine the question at greater length and report back to the Faculty "at an early date." Dean Bundy, who will appoint the committee, said its creation was approved by a 2 to 1 vote...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Committee to Consider Problems of Expansion | 11/16/1960 | See Source »

...Budget immediately." (Ike did.) ¶Be prepared to offer a revised budget soon after inauguration. Candidate Nixon estimated that his program would cost nearly $5 billion more than President Eisenhower's, and Candidate Kennedy's avowed plans would presumably cost considerably more than Nixon's. ¶Appoint Cabinet members-not forgetting the gravely important presidential science adviser-by mid-December so they can be "informed and ready to make decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Morning After | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

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