Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winchester in 1793, after stoning the assistant headmaster with marbles, the boys locked him up overnight in the dining hall with the warden and a teacher. When the high sheriff was appealed to the next day, he refused help because the boys had firearms and were getting ready to defend the Outer Gate by flinging flagstones down on the police. Harvard and Princeton experienced numerous such episodes. In 1788 the situation at Harvard was so bad that Professor Eliphalet Pearson kept what he called a Journal of Disorders. "In the hall at breakfast this morning," he recorded...
...views that for seven years he was wont to deliver from his haughty isolation in the Elysée. Instead, a fascinated France saw a new De Gaulle, submitting night after night, for the first time in his life, to the interrogation of a newspaperman-forced to defend his accomplishments as President, to explain his grand designs, reduced to begging for his re-election like any politician...
...last to know that her lover was already a cold-war casualty when she met him. The anonymous men who live by violence, Leamas tells her savagely, "are a bunch of seedy squalid bastards, henpecked husbands, sadists, queers, drunkards," themselves among the saddest victims of the causes they defend...
Learning by Defending. As a result of all this, says Research Attorney Lee Silverstein of the American Bar Foundation, 26 states have instituted vital reforms. In the American Bar Association Journal, Silverstein reports that the Gideon case has particularly affected Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, where a poor man's right to free counsel previously covered only capital cases. The right now covers felonies in all five states. Florida, which produced Gideon, has set up a statewide public-defender system and now permits law students to defend indigents-as do New York, Colorado, Connecticut and Massachusetts...
Heard argues that "the most pervasive aspiration of our time is for greater human freedom," insists that a university must "maintain an open forum" and defend the academic freedom of both faculty and students. He also stresses service to nearby Negro colleges: Vanderbilt now has faculty-exchange programs with Nashville's Fisk University and the cross-town Meharry Medical School, one of the South's main sources of Negro doctors...