Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although a final solution has not been reached, it seems doubtful that both sides will ever be completely happy. The editors will feel uneasy because the conflict is apt to be solved on legal rather than on moral grounds. A legal decision would overlook the original cry of the Texan--"The Texan cannot yield. To do so would be to deny the principle of a campus free from coercion...
...Beaverbrook hankered to succeed Winston Churchill in Britain's dark days of 1941 and 1942, says Driberg, and suffered such intense inner conflict between the "canker of ambition" and his genuine friendship for Churchill that, racked with psychosomatic asthma, he quit the Cabinet in the "supreme nervous crisis of his life...
This debate is, however, but a minor sign of the conflict in interest. The effect of the metropolitan pattern on an inherently suburban institution can already be seen. It seems inevitable that the problems will grow more serious as Cambridge becomes more a part of the inner metropolitan ring...
...Conflict between Georgian and modern architecture has held up the construction of the new Harvard Trust building. The board of 19 directors has been unable to decide on a final design for the new facade, although architects have submitted 50 sketches...
...Board said that colleges, already crammed, must cut down their numbers, and that no new faculties will be formed and no new staff engaged. The group also claimed that the present ever-increasing emphasis on scientific research is in direct conflict with the corporate college life...