Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberal Union is attempting to secure documents published by the Veritas Foundation in order to publicize the group's methods. "Based on what we have found so far, Veritas is made up of a bunch of cranks, but they are very rich cranks with influence among the alumni," Roger C. Algase '59, former president of the HLU said yesterday...
Yale has come up with a spirited group which has been unable to score a single point in its three contests. Dartmouth crushed the team, 11 to 0, Princeton, 9 to 0, and last week New York beat them unmercifully, 18 to 0. Of course, one cannot tell a great deal from comparative scores, but it seems reasonable to say that they certainly will not be the toughest oposition the Crimson has faced...
...most typical comment being "nonsense" followed by one of more exclamation points. Others, however, saw a "grain of truth." "Many commuters suffer from an inferiority complex . . . and show it," wrote one, and another snapped out: "I gather that as a member of Dudley I belong to an underprivileged group of some sort." A third non-resident observed that "I haven't come up against scorn; what I do resent is the automatic pity I get for being a commuter...
When asked whether or not the College should accept an increased percentage of commuters in coming years, many voiced "no opinion." Of those who did, however, the majority was against such expansion. What is significant are their reasons: "commuters are too homogenous a group," and "commuters are cheated out of college life." One non-resident even expressed the thought, "commuting is, generally speaking, a drag," and another unhappy student closed his little essay with these words: "war and commuting--they're both hell...
...Soviet Union, India, and three other nations boycotted the opening meeting of the group. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge proposed to the 18-nation Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space that it set up two separate study groups--one on the scientific and the other on the legal aspects of the subject...