Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This caused an immediate protest by large faction of the school which charged Schulman with advocating "too much piety." Petitions followed and a meeting of the association was called. Finally, after long discussion Schulman cast the deciding vote in a tie ballot and succeeded in tabling a motion that "no religious activities precede business meetings unless they are specifically called for by a majority vote of the association...
...sure, have had the ground cut from under them by the failure of the lower schools to provide sufficient students with the necessary classical background. The university itself may be blamed in part; faced with the fact that the lower schools had fallen under the administration of a faction that regarded such disciplined studies as languages to be a waste of time and unnecessary for contemporary living, the university had either to drop its requirements or not to admit students...
...fellowship, clique rubs elbow with clique. This would mean that Harvard is made up of a series of cliques something like city gangs. I find this item quite uncalled for! . . . You completely ignore the two hour entertainment program at which a majority enjoyed themselves, all save the "Puerto Rican faction" as Al Capp referred to them. As to the waiters "ruffling up" anybody, while they may have been slightly overzealous in performing their duty, they, in the main, did an admirable job. I feel that continuing the Smoker is advisable although possibly minor alterations could be made. In contrast...
...asked for a compromise? The Central, snapped Young. But Central President White snapped back that Clint Murchison made the offer. The compromise was for a new board of directors with six for the present Central management and eight for Bob Young's faction, plus Young as board chairman. But both the Central and Railroader Young turned it down. Back in Texas, Murchison said: "I was the one who suggested the meeting. I suggested it with the idea that any kind of a compromise is better than a bloody fight. And I thought we had Mr. Young in line...
...will not come. At the same time, the rabid outcry made Sunday by an anonymous liberal group has lent the appearance of low comedy to the whole situation. But perhaps derision is the best of all possible solutions. The contemptuous laughter of the community may keep the Pet Skunk Faction from doing the harm of which it is capable...