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...wants to do anything that might impair the quality of education," Furcolo declared Sunday...
...public education as a whole, an official discouragement of the compulsory public school system. With one hand the state government supports a free school establishment, while with its other it is paying those citizens who do not wish to use it. Such provisions insult, if they do not impair, the rights of Negroes; they prolong hopes for avoiding ultimate integration in that state where it can be achieved with least agony, and they weaken the preservation of free public education throughout the south...
Dean Watson called the duel "most deplorable," and said that the "corral," which had been intended as a mating pen for the Chinese dragons, had "tasted sin." Watson indicated, however, that Hall's grade would be raised. "The University can do nothing to impair the obligation of contract," he said...
...Clinton P. Anderson, vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, who took the same report to mean that the AEC has "no place to go, no place to hide." The U.N. committee's own summation of the significance: "The knowledge that man's actions can impair his genetic inheritance . . . clearly emphasizes the responsibilities of the present generation...
...young man. Their philosophy was that academic learning, if it is to be beneficial and not injurious, must be accompanied by moral education, and that this cannot come from the faculty, but must come from one's fellow students. They thought that the "promiscuity" of the clubs would seriously impair the value of this aspect of a Harvard education, and one of the earliest organic rules stated that "acts of conviviality" would be considered out of order...