Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term marks from professors are due in the Registrar's office today...
...referees, whose names were not on the program due to a fortunate oversight on the part of the Arena management, called some 59 minutes of penalties on the two teams. Some of their calls were bistantly wrong, such as the center zone check called on Al Key in the second period, and others were questionable. Worst of all, they let the game get out of control midway in the second period. Either from dullness or myopia, they missed penalties, and the players, thus encouraged in their illegal methods, proceeded to reduce the game to a slugging match...
...high regard for due process" hailed by such ordinarily enlightened writers as Dorothy Thompson actually points t a very different verdict. Dr. Allen's recommendations were based on the investigation made by the faculty committee on tenure. But the investigators' recommendations disagree with Allen's in all but on case. Dr. Allen holds that membership in the Communist Party, per sc, constitutes incompetence to teach. On the basis of the same evidence, gathered in 33 meetings, the faculty committee found that in two of the three cases this...
...this points to a conclusion that should have been obvious to such sophisticated observers as Miss Thompson and Mr. Smith. Justice does not rest on due process alone. There must also be good laws and intelligent interpretations. It is obvious that the admirable use of the due process has here been used to cover up a poor interpretation of competence. Adherence to a belief does not, in itself, render a man incompetent to teach. Only when he subverts the spirit of objective inquiry to a belief does the teacher become incompetent. And that condition can only be determined...
...whole affair at Seattle has the macabre air of the trial of the knave of hearts in Alice's Wonderland. Dr. Allen invents interpretations; Miss Thompson and Mr. Smith sit in the Jury Box, busily scribbling "due process" on their slates; and the rest of the press shout "off with their heads." But while Alice's dream of the knave's trial vanished, we may find the nightmare of the University of Washington spreading to legislators and trustees all over the country...