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Through use of ballots included in the publication, Croman hopes to ascertain opinion on questions of interest to the student body. He also noted that "the Council does many good things which do not get publicized, and we should let students know what we are discussing...
...agree that a Harvard institution should comply with state laws but we feel it is the responsibility of an educational institution to ascertain what the law really means. At a time when more and more thinking people all over the world are concerning themselves with the dilemma of over-population, an institution like Widener Library should not withhold from its students any work which deals with a subject of such significance to the survival of mankind as the control of human reproduction. Karl Sax (Harvard M.S. '17, S.Sc. '22), Professor of Botany, President, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts...
...refugees from India. As regards the Kashmir issue, Mr. Beecher, who would not have President Mohammed Ayub Khan "intransigent," himself appears to support the intransigence of those who have successfully resisted the various efforts made by the United Nations to hold a free and impartial plebiscite in order to ascertain the wishes of the Kashmiri people whether they would like to join Pakistan or India. The simple expedient of disposing of the problem by pushing it into the background is hardly a "solution." The severe strain imposed on Pakistan's resources by the problem of absorbing no less than eight...
...past five years the federal government has instituted research programs to ascertain whether cancer was caused by milk-drinking. Stare had no comment on this...
Just how much truth lies behind all the scandalmongering is hard to ascertain. On the Cooney affair, the bi-partisan state Law Enforcement Council came to no significant conclusion. The Republican majority found Meyner "derelict" in his duty; the Democratic minority exonerated him completely. It might be relevant to point out, however, that Meyner was elected partially as a reform governor, that he conducted a careful investigation of the Hoffman case (former G.O.P. governor Harold G. Hoffman stole some $300,000 from the state), and that under his administration the Joe Adonises and the Frank Ericksons seem to have disappeared...