Word: elements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under its present constitution the Student Council has been equipped with an electoral procedure that has allowed one element in the student body, the Club group, to achieve representation far beyond its numerical strength. This constitution has licensed the Council to dabble in risky Freshman dances and smokers, entailing investment of $3000 of money subscribed by students who had little idea that these funds might be devoted to projects which hardly can be termed "charitable." Further, there is no constitutional limitation on Council spending; thus such questionable expenses as $275 for private dinners and pictures cannot be legally disputed...
...power, potentially to drive a large steamship across the Atlantic Ocean. But physicists who have studied the problem believe that an atomic engine will be no teacup affair; the only method they have found to date for releasing nuclear energy is the fission of considerable quantities of a heavy element like uranium...
Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account...
...they giggled and gossiped. In the role created by Robert Jackson, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan was pushing a sober trial of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with an American stenographer. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Germany, affected the dandy, with white pocket handkerchief, smart bow tie and black-ribboned pince...
...should prove to be a failure, the College and the other New England institutions which it is to represent ought to have an observer on the spot who will be able to report back to them the fact of and reasons for its collapse or domination by one element. If, on the other hand, it is a success, and a working international association is set up, Harvard should have a part in the discussion and actual labor involved in the formation of a constitution; ideas representative of those predominant here should be presented. If, and this seems most likely...