Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...previous record holder (18 hr. 23 min., in 1908): Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette. who had the benefit of rests during quorum calls. The preMorse record for talking longest without quorum calls (as Morse did) was held by Louisiana Senator Allen Ellender (12 hr. 20 min., in 1949). †Of such legislative shenanigans, the elder Henry Cabot Lodge once observed: "To vote without debating may be ... rash, but to debate and never vote is imbecility...
...once their education is completed. They cannot be more dangerous security risks then. If anything, another year at the Law School may, as hoped in the Faculty statement, clear some of the fuzziness from their thinking. Professor Leach's zeal to have the Lubells drafted, then, would certainly not benefit the army, the Lubells, or the draft system...
...what about the Law School? Perhaps Leach felt it would benefit from his move. But if he wanted to cleanse the Schools of their influence, his purgative is temporary at best, for nothing can stop the twins from re-entering after their military service. Perhaps, taking a broader view, Professor Leach wants to repair the Law School's prestige in the eyes of its critics by serving notice that at least some of the school does not want the Lubells around. If so, he forget that it is not he but the Lubells that make news. Because of this...
...latter view. Tying tutorial to one course limits its scope. If a standardized plan of study is necessary for the sophomore, this also can be served in the sections of a survey course. But to insist that tutorial be this rigid and uniform is to destroy much of its benefit...
...Houses, which allow members a broad range of study, and which supplement, rather than supplant regular course work. Furthermore, a turn to flexibility and additional freedom of study would not require overloading the student with reams of reading material. Careful examination of severe poems can be of more benefit than quickly skimming a hundred pages...