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...must not read too much into the behaviour of the Asian countries in signing the treaty," he warned. "Their behaviour does not always express the opinion of the articulate classes. Indonesia, for instance, may have trouble ratifying the treaty at home...
...Yale professor is also interested in finding satisfactory statistical methods with which to study past voting behaviour in this country. He will be breaking new ground with this project, as no one has worked on it before. In his spring seminar. Government 226, each member of the group will be required to carry on "intensive work in the application of quantitative methods to the data of state and local electoral behaviour...
...hero of a blood & thunder historical novel, Rodney could certainly have paid more attention than he did to the uneasy behaviour of his own sepoy infantrymen. They were badly upset by the rumor (true enough, in fact) that their rifle cartridges were greased with a mixture of beef and hog fat: by the sanctions of religion, the use of beef fat was mortal offense to the Hindus among them, hog fat to the Mohammedans. Fanatics and profiteers, princes and foreign agents were also working overtime to stir up the sepoys. By the time Savage had it all deciphered...
...public continue to write us for copies of The Kinsey Report, under the mistaken notion that it is distributed free by the Kinsey Distilling Corp. We wish to advise them (especially those who forward us labels from Kinsey Whiskey or Kinsey Gin) that their request for copies of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (popularly known as The Kinsey Report) should be directed to their local bookseller or to the publisher...
...Christianity," the "Arts and Sciences," "the Literature and Eloquence of Our Language," and such other subjects as "the wants and taste of the age demand." Lecturers were required to believe "in the divine revelation of the Old and New Testaments," listeners to "be neatly dressed and of orderly behaviour." (Both requirements long since canceled.) A Lowell, if there was a "competent" one, would always be trustee. (The Institute's present trustee: Boston Banker Ralph Lowell.) If inflation ever spiraled too high, cut the Institute's income too hard, the Institute could charge admission to its lectures: the price...