Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reads in The Crimson and elsewhere that ultimate power in the University rests with the Corporation, which is self-perpetutating. But this is not true. The Charter places final authority for all University affairs, except routine daily business, in the Board of Overseers. The Corporation acts for the University, but is "always responsible" to the Board. The orthography is quaint, but the meaning is clear...
Slovo, a native of Lithuania whose parents emigrated to South Africa in 1935, exemplifies the connections that have grown up over the years between the ANC and the country's Communists. He joined the party before it was declared illegal in 1950 and helped write the Freedom Charter, the document that in 1955 became the ANC's political program. Slovo was accused of sabotage in 1963 in the same trial that resulted in lifetime prison sentences for Nelson Mandela and five other ANC leaders, but Slovo had managed to flee South Africa a month before the others were arrested...
...relatively new addition to the annual prank, the Charter Club in recent years has sent cards not only to female freshmen, but also to males...
...Charter Club was one of the first of Princeton's eating clubs to admit women, in the early 1970s. It is a few of the club's female members who in recent years have sent cards to men, members said...
...fate of the Fairfax tradition is uncertain now that the secret is out, but it seems that many people, both inside and outside the Charter Club, would like the legendary Fairfax to continue to deliver cards...