Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five, Herbert Dieckmann, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, Henry S. Hughes, professor of History, Arthur van Meherer, professor of Law, David Riesman '31, Ford Professor, and Samuel E. Thorne, professor of Legal History, will join the Senior Common Room when construction of the House is completed...
...referendum today on amendments to the constitution of the Student Council has one proposal which would greatly weaken the Council as a body representative of the Harvard undergraduates. This proposal, the third on the ballot, is that the House Masters and the Senior Common Room of each House appoint one of that House's representatives to the Council...
Something Borrowed. The Cabinet over which Abbas presides-he is heard with respect but has no decisive voice-is made up of two loose factions. One, which includes Abbas himself, favors some kind of continuing tie with France, in common with the neighboring Moslem states of Morocco and Tunisia. The other group, made up of men intrigued by the dream of Pan-Arabism, favors more extreme measures in fighting the French...
...Britain's gusty, professionally disgruntled Labor Party, the last important flags of privilege in a land now heavily socialized fly from the most offensive fortresses of all-the nation's great public (fee-charging) schools. For years, Labor leaders have stressed their blood bond with the common man by declaring ringingly that public (i.e., private) schools should be closed down-even when, as has sometimes been the case, the Labor orators have been Eton or Winchester men themselves...
...VOTING STOCK, owned until now by heirs of founding Hartford family, is expected to go on mar ket shortly. Wall Street reports that Hartford heirs will sell; that non-voting common now in public hands will be split ten for one and given a vote; that non-voting preferred will be exchanged for voting common...