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...admit to the logic of his reasoning. Yet there remained the unsettling feeling of a decision having been made in haste. Mr. Shawn was happy to dispel that illusion. "We've been considering it," he said, "to my knowledge, about 30 years...
...national press. Though the Harvard corporation and Radcliffe College Council have so far agreed only to talk about merger, everyone seems to assume that it is only a matter of time until we get the real thing. And remarkably neither President Pusey nor Mrs. Bunting has done anything to dispel this impression. For once, the Administration seems to be acquiescing to change before rather than after prolonged agitation and the inevitable Faculty study committees...
...compared with only a 4% gain last year. To fight inflation, the Nixon Administration intends to extend the surtax, keep money tight and aim for a slight budget surplus-much the same policies that Lyndon Johnson pursued in his last days as President. Nixon will undoubtedly try to dispel the common belief that Republicans are irrevocably probusiness, especially since his overriding domestic goal is to "bring together" a nation that is already rent by too many divisions...
...unanimous conviction that such a Center is an extremely pressing need which ought to be granted a high priority in any University plans for construction or adaptation. . . . The establishment of such a Center would help dispel the step-child feeling that so many graduate students now have. The University cannot persuade them that they are cherished members of the family merely by telling them so. It must provide visible and functional evidence of its concern...
...Scylla and Charybdis between which any proposed fare must chart a course in order to gain approval. Non-discrimination is, of course, the test that the court and the Examiner claim Youth Fare does not pass. But the question of "reasonableness" is also worth looking at, if only to dispel the misconceptions of those who resented Youth Fare...