Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cited a Dunster House Committee resolution Monday opposing "the entire idea of closed meetings" as "typical of student reaction to the Council's unfortunate stand on this whole affair...
...Disguised as a playboy-author, he pursues her to Sun Valley, and she develops an odd urge to share more of her time-and maybe her millions-with him. To most reporters, this might seem like very sweet vengeance, if you can get it; to Reporter Power, the whole idea is repugnant...
...removed Robert C. Fisher from the Council-operated NSA delegation. And it brought out of its closed session such an opaque and vague list of reasons--apparently based to some extent on information that has never been made public--that the student body, who elected Fisher, received no adequate idea of why he was impeached. Probably his impeachment was justified, but the electorate can't be sure, because nobody outside the Council knows either the specific charges or Fisher's answers to them...
...publication of information concerning a subject will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole." It is hard to see how it would have been "detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole" if the student body had been given a clear idea of why Fisher was impeached. It might, conceivably, have been detrimental to Fisher. The Council felt that this would have been the case, and that is why the meeting was closed. But Fisher himself said that he did not care if the meeting were closed or not. And even...
...Council must get rid of the idea that it can suppress information whenever it feels like it. The Council has used the same technique in the past, with equal lack of justification if not with equally flagrant results. Only very rarely does the Council deal with a subject about which information "will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole.' And only then is it justifiable for the Council to close its meetings...