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...spoke as lawyers, they are wrong: there would be nothing illegal in Harvard's permitting Seeger to discuss his case while it is under appeal. Mark DcWolfe Howe, professor of Law, has called this argument "absurd." If the lawyers spoke as advisers on a non-legal matter, they are foolish, and the implications of their advice are frightening. Is Harvard to bar a convicted, but unsentenced, man from speaking here about his case? (Willard Uphaus, who spoke in the fall of 1959, meets those specifications.) Or does the trouble come not from the case's pending nature itself, but from...
Historically speaking, the Council maintained that it had two important functions. First, it represented student opinion to the faculty. Secondly, it regulated extra-curricular activities. In recent years, however, advocation of the latter has become both nonsensical and foolish in that all undergraduate activities pride themselves upon their autonomy and they definitely would not submit themselves to supervision by the Council. The former is a more interesting study, however. Earlier, Student Councils did issue interesting and valuable reports which did reflect student opinion on various facets of university life, but the Student Council created a permanent committee, the SCCEP, which...
Fidel Castro, in his dislike of President Eisenhower, used to jeer not only at Ike for playing golf, but also at the game itself, which he called the foolish pursuit of "the little ball." Last week, before turning the Colinas de Villareal Golf Club into a workers' social club, Castro and a couple of sidekicks decided to take a whack at the little white ball themselves. Castro clomped around the course in fatigues and combat boots, announced at the outset that he could beat President Kennedy. His right-hand man, "Che" Guevara, Moscow's favorite transplanted Argentine, allowed...
...including foreign," said Richard S. Salant, president of the network's subsidiary, CBS News, which televised the show. "Murrow knew that at the time and knows it now." By week's end Murrow seemed to agree with his critics. His transatlantic intervention, said he ruefully, was "both foolish and futile...
Undoubtedly Shriver is wise in not pressing for a formal draft exemption for Corps volunteers. It would be politically foolish to do so. And given the uncertainties surrounding the future of the Corps, it is still impossible to say whether service in its ranks would be more useful to the United States than service in the army...