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...another section of the poll, which pertained to House selection, those questioned showed that their most cogent reasons for applying to a particular House were friends going to the House, the House reputation, and the House tutorial staff. In response to whether or not freshmen in groups of up to eight ought to be distributed at random among the Houses, the response...
...Dean Nicholas M. McKnight gave perhaps the most cogent reason for declaring the Yale freshman ineligible. It was clearly not the student's fault. He had accepted the scholarship at Cheshire in the faith that he was being treated no dif- ferently than any other scholarship student at the school. But as Dean McKnight, pointed...
...Perhaps, he admits, some kind of discrimination on the part of the non-Catholic world is to blame. But he thinks a more cogent reason is a "lower-middle-or lower-class orientation" that holds Catholics down. "It may also be that leadership, even outside the purely religious field, is still considered a clerical prerogative...
...more cogent reply to Knowland would have been that under present circumstances a blockade would not be an effective act of war. Knowland's proposal would have made sense when the U.S. was fighting the Chinese Communists in Korea. It may make sense at some future point, if the U.S. should undertake efforts to topple the Peking government. But a partial blockade with the goal of forcing the Reds to give up 13 prisoners is almost certain to be a fiasco. When Knowland forces the Administration to repudiate his proposals, he further weakens U.S. prestige in the Far East...
...Delegate Morehead Patterson, Manhattan industrialist (American Machine & Foundry Co.), found nothing at all to be encouraged about in the London talks. Said he in a cogent speech to the U.N.'s Disarmament Commission...