Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed a code for investigating committees that would ban one-man hearings, give any person involved in a hearing the right to subpoena witnesses with committee consent...
...will also remain from both Kirkland and Winthrop House, but all Eliot and Dunster residents will shift into their Houses next year. Some of the Dunster men, however, had to be convinced by House officials before they would consent to move. "We fee the location is inconvenient for our men," Mrs. Irma E. Hutchison, House Secretary, explained...
...would impress many readers of the Yalta papers. Said he: "If the disclosures dis courage two or three nations from thinking they can sit down behind closed doors -with no responsibility to their elected representatives and to the people-and proceed to parcel out nations and people without their consent, they will have served their purpose. Whether it be at Yalta. Potsdam or Geneva, a useful purpose will be served if every official who participates in negotiations realizes that he has an ultimate accounting to the people and that his decisions will have to stand the light of history...
Churchill exploded when the Big Three began to take up the U.S. idea of postwar trusteeships. "He did not agree with one word of the trusteeship report . . . Under no circumstances would he ever consent to 40 or 50 nations thrusting interfering fingers into the life's existence of the British Empire." Later Churchill said that the principles which had been incorporated in the Atlantic Charter were already in force throughout the British Empire. "I sent a copy of this interpretation to Wendell Willkie," he added...
...responsibility expected of a Harvard student," the Dean's Office gave no indication that it would suddenly apply the general rule to the parking situation. Illegal parking has been going on for years without decanal admonishment. In effect, by not publicizing its attitude, the Administration was giving its tacit consent to minor parking violations by permitting them to continue so long. "We're doing this," Dean Leighton said on Wednesday, "so that the community will feel the University is acting with some perception of the parking problem." Surely the Administrative Board could just as effectively have shown its cognizance...