Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This dramatic activity is part of an overall increase in the influence and popularity of Kirkland House activities. In recent years there has been a rebirth of art interest, reflected in the new art studio and the House's twice-yearly exhibitions. House music groups play in the Common Room at least once a week, and a combination House newspaper and literary supplement is being formed...
...which can now be used for a library. In one of its nine rooms on three floors, Kirkland House members can retreat from their roommates and tutors, and find a soft chair in which to study or fall asleep. Another location where much occurs is the Junior Common Room, where forums, concerts, and meetings punctuate the eternal magazine reading and piano playing...
Today, interviews will be held in Adams C-11 from 2 to 3 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m.; in Dunster House Senior Common Room (J entry) from 7 to 8:30 p.m.; in Eliot at the office of the House superintendent (I entry) from 4 to 5:30 p.m.; in the Kirkland Junior Common Room from 4 to 6 p.m.; in the Lowell House Senior Common Room between 3 and 5 p.m.; and in the Winthrop Senior Common Room (centry) between...
...succession of cabinets, has also been an unwanted feature of the Fourth Republic. Cabinets give up too soon, taking any parliamentary defeat as a rejection of their whole administration, and resign before the Assembly actually votes no-confidence. Also, votes of no-confidence and censure have again developed into common weapons, and are not the exceptional measures they were intended to be. Cabinets have used the "informal vote of confidence," i.e., a threat of resignation in the absence of parliamentary approval on policy, as a frequent weapon rather than an occasional defense...
...should be overhauled to prevent traditional sectional and ideological differences from paralyzing efficiency. The Committee on Constitutional Reform has suggested that the Opposition must propose an acceptable alternate program before the Government is obliged to resign. This would be highly desirable, assuming the Opposition is united enough to formulate common alternative programs...