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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward F. Burke '50, president of the Student Council, had said earlier that if more than 20 percent of those contributing requested that no money go to the Council, he would consider it a "repudiation" of the Council's present policy.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Combined Charities 'Sample' Indicates Support of Council | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

Last night, on the basis of the sample taken, he said, "I wish to thank the students for what I consider a vote of confidence for the practical projects we have undertaken this year."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Combined Charities 'Sample' Indicates Support of Council | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

The role of the conservative is particularly important when we consider his opposite number, the emotional liberal. The liberal of this sort is one whose emotions are stirred when he reads a tag. If the tag says "pro union," he votes for whatever is in the package, whether it helps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts from Flander's Lectures | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

I do not consider a successful football team superfluous for Harvard. It is a requirement of dignity and competence to do well what we undertake to do in whatever department. If the Admissions Office wants to weigh football ability more heavily, or the Dean's Office equate so many hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Questions Football Poll | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

Lord Vansittart protested such "preposterous and unprecedented" extensions of immunity at a time when all the countries of the Communist empire treat British and U.S. representatives "like stink." Answering Vansittart for the government, Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor, brought cheers when he announced that the government was setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Polecat Hunt | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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