Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impact of the Loeb Drama Center on undergraduate dramatics will be the topic of a Student Council Forum panel discussion featuring Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, next Tuesday. MacLeish is a member of the Faculty Theatre Committee, a study group considering ways to utilize the new Center...
...meet the practical difficulties raised by governmental reform, Plan E supporters in Cambridge banded together to form the Cambridge Civic Association. Functioning not only as an election-time support to good-government candidates but as a fulltime watchdog and policy development group, it assumed and has maintained a strong position as perhaps the principal source of progressive ideas in the city...
...their supporters to present detailed stands on such issues, come into the council without any such proposals--without, in fact, any clear idea of how to vote on them. Thus, when a CCA-initiated proposal comes up for action, the Independents may vote against it because some special-interest group has requested opposition or just because they are suspicious of any sort of CCA proposal which seems to have no origin in popular demand...
These volumes, in general, are studies by individual scholars within a certain area of Soviet life. Although the Center believes in what the socal relation people call interdisciplinary "cross-fertilization," it does not seek to accomplish this through collaboration or group projects. As Kluckhohn observed in the foreword to Joseph S. Berliner's Factory and Manager in the USSR (No. 27 in the Russian Research Center series), the Center thinks that such an inter-disciplinary approach is most successful when it takes place "under one skull...
First, opponents of NSA claim that the Association is viewed by the public as a lobby group for a monolithic student opinion that does not really exist. But there is on many vital issues a majority consensus among American students that can be valuably asserted. As a safeguard against false unanimity, though, NSA has provided that should a college disagree with majority resolutions, it can register a written vote of dissent; Harvard can go on record as disagreeing with any actions of NSA it finds noxious...