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President Friley bowed before the rhetorical storm, appointed a committee of six faculty members and six dairymen to go over the Brownlee opus and ascertain its accuracy. Last week this committee made its report: Brownlee's contentions must be retracted, his pamphlet revised...
...make. Already reactionaries and Russo-phobes are utilizing the dispute to sow dissension between Russia and the West. The British have produced what seems a just and reasonable solution in their proposal to apply the principle of self-determination to the disputed areas, plebiscites to be taken to ascertain their loyalties. But the fundamental solution of the problem can be secured not merely through frontier rectifications; Russia must be given security from aggression by an establishment of that collective security for which Maxim Litvinov waged a fruitless battle throughout the Thirties. In 1919, Clemenceau and Foch gave up their demands...
First activity of the association will be to poll all Greater Boston college men and women in an effort to ascertain opinion on post-war problems. The poll will be taken in the near future and will precede articles and features on the subject in the several papers...
...accurate cross-section of the class from which the candidates come. If it is not closely representative, if it perchance contains members of political cliques and little else, none except members of the Student Council can be aware of the fact. It would be impossible even to ascertain whether the Nominating Committee is fairly apportioned among the Houses or is representative of those students who live at home. No electorate can function effectively in darkness; no purchaser can look a horse in the mouth when its lips are sealed...
...plan. He advised that, "Every student who feels there is a possibility of being called into the service between now and the date of his mid-year examination should find out from his instructor whether an hour examination is to be given, or some other test provided, to ascertain the cumulative December grade. If a special examination or test is given, he is urged to take it because of the impossibility of foreseeing the exact date of his call to service...