Word: duress
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...course of compiling this material, criticism of courses-both adverse and favorable, constructive and destructive-inevitably arises. Since this criticism records the voice of undergraduate opinion, speaking freely and without duress from above or below, it furnishes a barometer for the faculty to judge their effectiveness in teaching that the College cannot obtain in any other...
...estimated at $5,000,000, was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday afternoon. This decision defeats the claims of two half-uncles and a half-aunt of the former Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman to this gift on the grounds that she was "not of sound mind and under duress when she made the will...
Goaded to action by the discovery that the House tax bill permits many million-a year firms to dodge all federal income taxes, the Senate Finance Committee has begun to reform Roosevelt's latest brain child. Disregarding administration duress, Chairman Harrison has demanded complete information on the proposed levies before reporting to the Senate...
Which the Princeton-Harvard-Yale Conference on Public Affairs pitches its tent on the Nassau campus May eighth and ninth, another link will be forged in the chain of natural interests and friendship that bind together the traditional "ivy colleges". In times of economic and social duress, with politicians and patriots scornfully hooting at the intellectual leadership of educational institutions throughout the country, the great universities are called upon more and more to take an active hand in the conduct of national affairs. By enthusiastically sponsoring the forthcoming colloquium on "Government and Economic Stability", the college newspapers wish to bear...
Baseball, king of the summer sports, comes out of its winter duress this week when the Crimson nine opens its season against Boston University on Soldiers Field Wednesday afternoon. The trip to New York, during which the team was to have met Columbia and Pennsylvania, ended in two cancellations and gave the boys only a good train ride for their pains...