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...prose style of Harvard's course catalogue can make a literate student pretty drowsy. Most programs are chosen by word of mouth, and among those students who plow regularly through their catalogues, there is a tendency to dismiss whole areas of human endeavor, like Soil Mechanics and Urdu, which appear to the untrained eye irrelevant. Yet a careful reading of the catalogue brings scholastic joy to a small, notoriously uncommunicative group of undergraduates who have effected a virtual monopoly over the University's more exotic, which is to say more enjoyable, selections. Opposing monopoly, we bring this list forthwith...
...Cambridge School Committee Tuesday night slashed the budget of the committee of Ed School deans created to help search for a new superintendent, and threatened to dismiss the advisory group before it can make any recommendations...
...lawyers saw the case as a chance for the court to tell more about how far agitators can go in potential riot situations before the First Amendment free-speech guarantee fades into the shouting-fire-in-a-crowded-theater category. But the court ducked the chance, choosing instead to dismiss Epton's appeal in an unsigned order. The order might be interpreted as meaning that such haranguing can very easily become criminal and that the Rap Browns can be prosecuted without constitutional objection. But it might not. For in cases involving concurrent sentences, the court has traditionally allowed...
Trodden and DeGuglielmo's three council supporters did not accept Dunphy's explanation. One of the councillors--Daniel J. Hayes Jr. moved unsuccessfully to dismiss Dunphy...
...Greece is "a crowned liberal democracy." The King is "the symbol of national unity." He will have power to appoint and dismiss Premiers, but may select and fire other Cabinet ministers only with the Premier's consent. He is commander in chief of the armed forces and appoints the chiefs of staff and the internal-security chief on recommendation of the Supreme National Defense Council. He may pardon prisoners on recommendation of a newly created Judicial Council...