Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replacing the archaic system of representation by class, the seven-man re-evaluation committee recognized the Houses as the significant units in the College today. If approved, the constitution they propose may transform an ineffectual Council, confused as to its constituency and schizophrenic about its purpose, into an organ with a functional role in the University community. The council which it creates will work on a smaller scale and will drop the pretense of being the official spokesman for all students. In its more modest position it will stop trying to censor other student activities and organizations...
...Falls makes very little sense if you don't buy some of Gardner's beliefs; his essential assumption being that the great attack will somehow come about because of internal evil, that the greed and weakness of our society will push us over the brink. I cannot share this archaic, retributive morality; nor do I buy the proposition that all evil is alike and from a common source...
Whether or not business losses are actually as large as the businessmen claim, Blue Laws are archaic. Not because Hartford merchants make money and Boston merchants don't, but because it is foolish to inconvenience people by a law based on sentiments which few of them share. It may not always be necessary to close a real estate deal on Sunday, but it is necessary often enough, and offensive to few enough people, that it should not be prohibited by law. As for holidays, they should, as the commission noted, be treated separately. Whatever their origins, holidays in this country...
happiness -penás, -pán- n -ES [happy + -ness) 1 archaic : good
fortune : good luck : PROSPERITY
Michiganders of both parties have long recognized the need for constitutional reform. The current constitution was writ ten in 1908, has been amended 67 times, now runs 13,000 words longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is cluttered with archaic provisions, including one which puts a $250,000 ceiling on the state debt. Like many another state constitution, it apportions legislative representation in a fashion that is, after half a century of shifting population, totally unrealistic. The only real issue, after voters last spring approved a convention to draft a new constitution, was which party would elect more delegates...