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...when students met to protest the dismissal. Since the Liberal Club is now minus the required faculty supervision, and since discussion of social problems is forbidden elsewhere within the college grounds, expression of their opinion has been effectively denied students. As a result, they resorted to public demonstrations to impress on the college officials their demand for Johnson's reinstatement. Rather aimlessly molested by policemen on one occasion and finally allowed to continue their meeting, they later attempted a discussion in the college building itself, and were ejected when the director of the Evening School called in the police. Both...
Atop Sinai's Mount St. Catherine is a small, poorly constructed chapel which belongs to the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine ten miles down the massif. The uneven chapel floor shows the impress, say the monks, of St. Catherine who lay there emitting light 300 years after Emperor Maximinus had her head hacked off.* In this same vicinity where Dr. Abbot's men will measure the Sun, men long before Abram left Ur used to worship the Moon. Sinai was then the Land of Sin the moon...
...such a case argumentation is useless; against the hard shell of sincerity it can make no impress; to the skeptic it would be sadly bromidic. It is sufficient to draw the obvious analogy. To the average undergraduate, such a performance as the Rollins oath appears a trifle suggestively reminiscent of those faded, shrunken khaki dungarees once the foil for a pretty gilt badge...
When the militia was called out and the strikers were told to keep back. Red. in order to impress the girl, stepped forward and was shot. With this unfinal denouement the wandering tale wanders...
Privately French officials called this British statement a mass of weasel words uttered to impress U. S. public opinion but contrary to the letter of the Accord de Con fiance which Britain signed. What Europe owes, they asserted, most certainly "affects the European regime" and is therefore explicitly included in (not excluded from) the purview of the Accord de Con fiance...