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...fear of accusation. of being racist and reactionary, has prevented open discussion of decisions handed down this year by the Committee of Fifteen (of Rights and Responsibilities). I write not to cite or pass judgment on what appears the differential treatment of violators according to racial criteria, but rather to suggest a model for the apparent attitude of the disciplinary body...
...better term, may be referred to as "humanistic" lines. The mistake has been made of viewing liberal political institutions as simply the administrators of humanistic values. Though the liberal society does often protect such values, its first commitment is to the preservation of the state. Similarly, the Committee of Fifteen, as a political institution in a liberal community, finds its first obligation in the preservation of the University community...
...fifteen. I went to the province of Cameguey, and worked with a farmer all day. At night we studied the abe; I taught four farmers-two women and two men. The campaign was like a battle, because we had one million illiterate people. And we had to begin to teach them, because we had to go out from underdevelopment. It was the first activity of the Revolution. All the youth of our country were in that campaign. We were very young people-12, 13, 14, 15 years. We lived all the time with the farmers, teaching them what the Revolution...
...know that the one seven million ton harvest was in 1952, when sugar was really the only Cuban export worth mentioning (besides cigars) and tens of thousands of hungry cane-cutters who could find work only during the four-or five-month harvest had to work fourteen or fifteen hours a day for an average daily wage of 80 cents. Now the entire economic organization is incomparably better, and there are grappling machines to pick up the cane and trucks with huge carts attached to them to carry the cane instead of the ancient little horse-drawn, wooden-wheeled carts...
...fifteen-minute mark, the Crimson was just going through the motions, and Toomey scored again, Guy Burrowes added a seventh at 18:34, and at 19:19, Toomey, all alone in front of the Harvard net, completed his hat trick...