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Word: commons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This attitude is unconscionable at a University, which by definition depends on free speech and free exchange of ideas for its survival. And yet it one that is becoming all too common in the realm of student-administration relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speech, Not Debris | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...country that does not view its government as an adversary." She realizes that her policies are being watched and copied, but argues that it won't do any good for Norway to act alone. "The climate will not change just because Norway changes its policies. We must search for common agreements in order to help carry others along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Norway's Radical Daughter GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...much a literary figure as a legal one, Holmes' major work, The Common Law, is held as one of the classics of legal scholarship more than a century after its publication. Toss in Holmes' friendships with the major figures of the Northeastern aristocracy (Henry and William James and Henry Cabot Lodge, among others), not to mention the three separate battle wounds he suffered as an officer in the Civil War, and you have a life history that could intimidate even the hardiest of biographical explorers...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Exploring a Great Legal Mind | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

...reader focus instead on the broader themes of Holmes' life. In particular, he emphasizes the path of Holmes' legal ideas: how they formed in his college and war days, grew during his early legal experience and blossomed into a fascinating ideology that has since been incorporated into our common...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Exploring a Great Legal Mind | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

...incompatible with our continued survival. Please take this to heart and reconsider the door-drop ban if this pertains to your house. I'm sure I speak for all the publications in saying that I'd rather work with house administrators than against them. We have a common goal--improving life in the College community. Let us achieve it together...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: An Open Letter to the House Masters | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

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