Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this." Two hours later, after the whole dorm has spent a great deal of time in semi-riot, the proctorian rumble continues, and I have given up hope of finishing my Friday math assignment and getting the hum paper done. My gripe is that, first, it is unfair to conduct such a bolsterous affair on a Thursday night, when most Pennypackerites have classes on Friday; and, second, that, if such a party were the scene in my pad, our kindly proctors would quickly disperse us. Justice? Craig M. Nlelson...
After an entire term of being attacked from all sides, Howie Phillips is getting paranoid. His latest statement (such as it is), charging Dean Monro with unethical conduct and subversion, goes beyond all bounds of rationality and, indeed, belief...
...short, Phillips and Leed seem much too quick too condemn a man who has been honest in his conduct and use of influence. Monro has never hesitated to speak his mind, but he has not forced demands on any student or organization. Both he and the principle of free comment have been unnecessarily and nonsensically smeared...
...made himself a millionaire as a moneylender. As the house guest of Frederick the Great, Voltaire was caught out in a shady currency-smuggling scheme. Frederick, the ruthless practitioner of Realpolitik, was shocked at the low moral code of writers. "If your work deserves statues," he wrote, "your conduct merits chains." Voltaire wrote to friends: "The King is an exceptional man-very attractive at a distance." The pair resumed their friendship later, since Frederick, an incorrigible scribbler of poor verse, could not bear to have anyone but Voltaire edit and polish his poems. As Author Nicolson succinctly puts...
Thomas E. Petri '62, secretary of the Council, J. Eugene Marans '63, and Corneilus J. Minihan '63 said that they hoped their resignation would prompt the Council to conduct a college-wide referendum about re-organization "as soon as possible...