Word: arguments
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...Senior Tutor is apt to be able to present a student's case in a much more sympathetic light than is the student himself, the argument runs. Knowing the precedents and the acceptable arguments, the Senior Tutor is in the best position to present the most palatable defense. The student, on the other hand, would be likely to plead instead of argue--a tactic which could only antagonize the members of the Board. Furthermore, Dean Watson argues that if a student were brought before the Board he would be "subject to a number of embarrassing questions which might otherwise...
Joseph F. McCormack, chairman of the Massachusetts Parole Board and an opponent of capital punishment, has authored a valuable piece of legislation. He is asking the 1967 General Court not to repeal the death penalty, but merely to examine the chief argument of those urging its retention -- its efficacy as a crime deterrent...
Handlin's argument misses a major point. The University is inextricably involved in student deferments--the Administration notifies local draft boards of students' "full-time" status and "good standing"; the Faculty issues grades that may determine whether a student can retain his deferment. True, there is a political dimension to the deferments, one that will hardly be missed when a Presidential Advisory Commission reports on the Selective Service next month and when new draft legislation comes before Congress later next year. But the two factors--political and educational--cannot be separated, and the Faculty should not have ignored a problem...
...been to get Republicans in Congress playing on the same side of the ball. The Goldwater debacle undercut the party establishment, giving younger congressmen who had complained long and bitterly of their lack of influence in party councils an opportunity to change the leadership. On the argument that the party needed an appealing new image, they deposed bumbling Charlie Halleck of Indiana and elevated then 51-year-old Ford. But the victory was diluted only a few days later when the Republican congressmen ignored Ford's support of Peter F. B. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, and voted to retain Leslie...
...fuzzing over policy conflict with position papers and embracing obviously incompatible views in a single breath--gracefully avoiding commitment to both. He manges to maintain some semblance of unity among politicians who may have no more in common than the side of the aisle on which they sit. His argument, in effect, is that people with widely varying beliefs can belong to the same church (Republican), as long as they pay the minimum measure of respect expected of God-fearing men -- attendance, dues, or perhaps merely resting on Sunday...