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...Council, noting recent College criticism of Parietal Rules, voted to appoint a committee at its next meeting to make a thorough investigation of the present House and Yard rules, with an eye to revision toward leniency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Agrees to Refer Wheat Plan to Houses | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

...Park to enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough in the dangerous days that lay ahead. He looked wan and tired, and it hurt me to say what I had to say. ..." Roosevelt never told him he was going to appoint him Ambassador. A few days later Winant read the news in the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambassador's Report | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Political "pork barreling" on the Committee has resulted in an inadequate educational system dominated by unqualified and uninterested men. Politics and education are ill suited to each other, and when they mix, education most certainly suffers. Since it is traditionally impossible to appoint educators to the Cambridge School Committee, the Cambridge Civic Association has endorsed only those candidates who seem eminently qualified and who have little interest in setting up a soft touch for a political erony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 10/14/1947 | See Source »

...stone deaf, an inkling of what was going on. His paunch protruding majestically, he carried himself to the middle of the square like a ship in full sail and shouted: "Children, children, don't let's be children. You are citizens. If you have a disagreement, appoint a committee. Don't make Fiumicino the laughing stock of the countryside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Adding his voice to the swelling chorus, New York's Bishop Charles K. Gilbert, successor to Bishop Manning, reported that his office was swamped with applications for remarriage. He added that the present canon's ambiguous wording had forced him to appoint a committee of two lawyers and a psychiatrist to study each case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ecclesiastical Renos | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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