Word: datum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will investigate such questions of how to define upper and lower classes in terms of "hard datum." Given the "Concrete material, you can argue about ," he said, but "demographers as are impatient with philosophical speculation...
...recognize) the justified and relevant concern of students with some issues technically subject only to the delegated authority of the Faculty and the ultimate authority of the Corporation. In matters of educational policy, of course, no one can question the rightness of treating undergraduate opinion primarily as a datum to be considered in arriving at a course of action, for here students' views are limited by their place in the educational hierarchy and undergraduates are properly subject to their teachers' authority. But in a matter such as diplomas, the opinions of students should weigh equally with those of the Corporation...