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Bruening made it clear through his responsiveness that he did not feel his academic freedom was being threatened. It would make more sense for the indignant professors who signed yesterday's statement to ascertain "a full account" of what happened in Hunt Hall than to protest the incident in a dangerously ignorant way. Frances Lang...
...Shakespeare's most anonymous characters as they walk in and around the doings at Elsinre in Hamlet. The title characters of Stoppard's play, in case you have forgotten them, are two friends of Hamlet's from university days who are summoned by Claudius to help ascertain the nature of Hamlet's madness...
...They are trying to ascertain some sort of subversive activity," Pailet explained, "but if some man tells another what it is possible to think, can you call this subversive...
Washington would like to see Saigon probe the N.L.F. to ascertain whether there is any chance of driving a wedge between it and Hanoi-even though most high U.S. officials in Viet Nam believe that the North dominates the Viet Cong's political leadership. But South Vietnamese officials are so fear ful of a U.S. attempt to foist an N.L.F.-dominated coalition government on them that they have refused to consider any formal meetings. It is conceivable, suggested an observer, that the North is trying to drive its own wedge between Washington and Saigon...
...opinion," he wrote, "based on the evidence presented at this hearing, that marijuana is a harmful and dangerous drug." In fact, "as far as I can ascertain, its only purpose is the induction of a state of intoxication or euphoria. The drug has a great attraction for young men and women of college age or less during their formative years, when they should be gaining the education and experiences upon which to build their future lives. The use of the drug allows them to avoid the resolution of their underlying problems rather than to confront them realistically. While marijuana...