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...Dorothy Smith to be found guilty of murder, only two-thirds of the court needed to concur . . . and for her to be sentenced to life imprisonment, three-fourths (i.e., seven members) needed to concur. To sentence her to death, two-thirds of the court would have to concur in the finding and all in the sentence. It is worthy of note that the court votes twice-once on the finding and once on the sentence...
With characteristic dogmatism (one can hear the empty church re-echoing), TIME Dec. 22 announced that T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets is "the only major poem the 20th century has produced ..." I doubt if Mr. Eliot, who is a Christian and practices a certain humility, would concur in the dizzy valuation placed on his poem. He certainly would not abuse the work of Yeats, Stevens, Rilke and others equally significant, with the term minor poetry...
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While I regret your decision to support Stevenson, I concur with your belief that one who supports a presidential candidate should ordinarily support also the legislative candidates who can make his administration effective. At the same time, I think your making of exceptions for Senator Lodge and Representative Heselton is amply justified...
...student committee of seven members, to whom every other student is expected to report any evidence of dishonesty, decides on the evidence. If guilty, the committee reports it to the Faculty with a recommendation. The faculty usually expels the student if six out of seven on the committee concur in conviction...