Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pusey did not elaborate on details of location except to say that the "probability is very strong that it will be in the neighborhood of Leverett and Dunster Houses." This recalled one idea that has been previously suggested, to build onto Mather Hall towards DeWolfe Street, eliminating the House tennis court...
...school pupils... and may determine under what conditions the same may compete with similar organizations in other schools." As a member of the White House Committee on Education has said, the Massachusetts school system comes "as close to home rule as any place." A committee-man expressed the same idea, when he asserted that"The School Committee has been given by the state full authority to run the school system...
...Lesseps' real roadblocks lay not in the sand and rock of the Sinai desert but in the chancellories and salons of Europe. In France envious rivals-including the Saint-Simonian Socialists-tried to take the canal away from De Lesseps. In London successive British governments first derided the idea, then worked to block construction of the canal, then bought shares in it, and finally occupied Egypt to secure military control of the new route to India. De Lesseps spent as much time rushing about Europe to put out fires as he did in digging. But the canal was built...
...idea of there being no Young Republican chief in Cambridge does sound good. Two heads are better than one, but perhaps where the HYRC is concerned, none may be better than both put together...
...HYRC in a more favorable light for the Dean's office, two solutions are offered. One is, do away with the presidency altogether and let everybody fight on equal ground. Thinking back on the club's presidents in recent years, this doesn't seem a bad idea at all. The other is, elect both major contenders, and have them rule like the twin consuls of Rome. This way, everybody wins. Difficulties over policy may arise, but it will be hard for the club to become more ineffectual than...