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...such; another, a bit further down the class list, reported to the President several charges against the moral conduct of the first student, who was then fairly stiffly punished. The senior class gathered under Rebellion Elm to protest the charges and the punishment and threatened the informer with bodily harm. Four of them were suspended, and rioting raged for several days. Cannonballs were thrown from windows of dormitories, and bonfires spread through the Yard. It was a much cruder protest than the earlier ones had been but the penalties were much the same--37 seniors were dismissed from College...
...hopes to move most of its switching and storage facilities to the Codman Yards on Galvin Blvd, in Dorchester, but the plan has met opposition from residents of the area who fear that the MTA facilities will harm the neighborhood...
...committees in America are going to do any good, the government must have a consistent way of looking at them. It would do no harm to allow Presidential use of such boards of inquiry to become a regular and familiar practice. Fortunately, the Administration has ready models for a committee system not only in the British Royal Commissions, but also in the workings of its own Civil Rights Commission. Abstracting from these institutions, it is easy to state the general requirements of a good Presidential Committee: (1) It should be called into existence for the general purpose of gaining...
...nearly extinct Central African Federation. Required by tradition to read the speech drafted by the local white government, Lord Dalhousie, resplendent in a plumed cocked hat and silver epaulets, delivered a sharp rebuke to Britain because it "has betrayed the people of the federation and has done them irreparable harm...
...views on another departmental matter, the proposed plan to give sophomore tutorial for credit, are of a piece with his concern for individual privacy and scholarship. Tutorial should give an opportunity for "leisured reflection" and study whenever possible, he says, and a needless grade at the sophomore level does harm to this philosophy. This comes from a man who has a deep respect for the individual scholar pursuing his own curiosity at his own pace in the university...