Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balloting for the NSA referendum will take place in Dudley Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14 and 15, and in the other Houses on the 15. The Student Council voted Oct. 26, with only one dissent, to recommend that Harvard rejoin the organization, a decision that the College must ratify before it becomes binding. In a similar referendum a year ago, the vote was 891 to 823 to withdraw...
...opinion that does not really exist. But there is on many vital issues a majority consensus among American students that can be valuably asserted. As a safeguard against false unanimity, though, NSA has provided that should a college disagree with majority resolutions, it can register a written vote of dissent; Harvard can go on record as disagreeing with any actions of NSA it finds noxious...
...surprisingly harmonious Student Council last night voted, with only one dissent, to urge the student body to rejoin the National Student Association. The recommendation will be submitted to a College-wide referendum, which will determine the fate of this much discussed issue...
...Harvard Young Democratic Club has passed a resolution condemning the loyalty oath and affidavit contained in the National Defense Education Act. The resolution carried with only scattered dissent, at the club's meeting last night...
...only hope lies in training the best brains among the young in the law. And this to him means Orthodoxy. "If I stand up to be counted in that communion, it is not because I hold it perfect, or because I miss the stresses that have sent many into dissent and assimilation. It is because I sense in my bones that Jewish survival rests with the law . . . The formulas of dissent make a pleasant compromise for people who want an easier life than the law asks, or who have little training and yet want a taste of Judaism...