Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the old CHUL sent the question of retaining student choice back to its executive subcommittee, there appears to be little doubt that the new board will favor retention. Indeed some speculated that the representatives-elect were responsible for the old board's shift on the question of student choice. In straw votes on January 14 CHUL indicated that it favored recommending that a system of random student assignments at the end of freshman year be used for one to three years. But a week later, in its final meeting, the 1975 CHUL turned a quick about-face, recommending...
...candidate in identical words," said White. "One brother has sought and obtained approval of the candidate; the other has not. The former may validly be prosecuted ... under the court's view, the latter may not, even though the candidate could scarcely help knowing about and appreciating the expensive favor...
...five Arab chiefs of state, Algeria and Morocco last week were on the brink of war for control of the former Spanish Sahara. By week's end a sharp and bloody battalion-level battle near the oasis of Amgala (see map) had apparently ended in Morocco's favor. Reports from the scene were sketchy, but the Algerian press service spoke of "violent combat," while Moroccan officials, claiming victory, conceded "many dead...
...sighing for antique worlds. With acerbic but civil scholarship, he blames today's honorless condition on what he calls "modernism": the cultural movement that started in the latter half of the 19th century and has gathered momentum ever since. Modernism rejects the old, the traditional, the bourgeois in favor of the new, the sensational, the revolutionary. As such, it has dissolved many conventions, and discredited most institutions and values. Today, says Bell, its victory is complete. There is a perpetual, unwholesome rage for the new. Instead of affirming a "moral-philosophical tradition against which the new could be measured...
Davis quoted from the black radical W.E.B. Du Bois, who had once written that the black parent who forced his youngsters into integrated schools-where they might be unfairly and inhumanly treated-was doing them no favor. Cannily mocking social scientists, he noted that "much of what is handed around under the name of social science is an effort on the part of the scientist to rationalize his own preconceptions." He bolstered his thesis by examining the separate but equal doctrine that had received numerous court approvals. Scholastic separation of the races, Davis added, had "been so often...