Word: assignable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life have already decided to assign the blame to the choice system, and will make motions today that may lead to adoption of the Yale plan, which assigns students to Houses when they enter the college...
...think it is better to have all the students in one entry than spread out on different floors as in Cleverly," Vorenberg said. "I just hope we get enough volunteers so we don't have to assign people...
...instituted the hiring hall, a device used by many unions which allows them to assign jobs on the basis of seniority...
Because few other institutions in our society have the same central function, few assign such high priority to freedom of expression. Few are expected to. Because no other kind of institution combines the discovery and dissemination of basic knowledge with teaching, none confronts quite the same problems as a university...
...fellowship, a club, a circle of friends, a relics of the civil society outside it. Without sacrificing its central purpose, it cannot make its primary and dominant value the fostering of friendship, solidarity, harmony, civility, or mutual respect. To be sure, these are important values; other institutions may properly assign them the highest, and not merely a subordinate priority; and a good university will seek and may in some significant measure attain these ends. But it will never let these values, important as they are, override its central purpose. We value freedom of expression precisely because it provides a forum...