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...something good in everyone." Editor in Chief Chris Friedrichs of the Columbia College Daily Spectator detected little campus excitement over the wedding. But he observed that it was an embarrassment to liberals: "They had all these negative feelings toward Rusk, but now they have this charming story to contend with...
...Harvard, that bulwark of establishment liberalism, all this presents some very terrible problems. Privately, the deans think marijuana laws are as ridiculous as the rest of the intellectual world does. But there are pressures to contend with when you are running a college. Narcotics agents and outside police could call for a bust at any time, as they did last year at Princeton, Yale, and Cornell. The University could be placed in a very embarrassing and costly legal position if the family of a student convicted of drug offense should decide to sue Harvard after it was learned that...
Upton, a rangy (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) former Tulane tackle and onetime dean of business and public administration at Washington University in St. Louis, is successfully breaking what he calls "the lock step of higher-education systems" in which, he contends, the main concern is "the system rather than the end of learning." The intensive lower class year, in which all students take a common course called "Man in Perspective" consisting of interdisciplinary readings ranging from theology to esthetics and science, is designed to provide a firmer transition from high school to the intellectual world. Beloit planners contend...
...city, county or state liable for riot damages unless it has somehow acted negligently. Even then, many governmental bodies are protected by sovereign immunity, a musty theory that public monies can be used only for the general public, not to compensate individuals, such as riot victims. But legal scholars contend that sovereign immunity is unjust, illogical, and riddled with exceptions. Moreover, courts have gradually eroded or discarded the doctrine in several states. Once sovereign immunity is removed as a defense, a city or county is liable much like an individual charged with negligent performance of duty...
Stunted Development. Some church historians now contend that the repressive measures of Pius X (who was proclaimed a saint in 1954) stunted Catholic intellectual development for a generation. Biblical experts were particularly suspect. For years Catholic exegetes were required to abide by the conservative judgments of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, set up at the beginning of the century; among its dicta was the ruling that Moses authored the Pentateuch-even though it contains an account of his death clearly penned centuries later. Not until Pius XII's 1943 encyclical, Divino Afflante Spiritu, were Catholic Biblicists able to study Scripture...