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...Amir's turn to be gracious. As a climax to his fabulous shindig, he announced the first popular reform in the state's history: a 25-member state assembly. The Amir would pick nine members, leaving 16 to be chosen by a complicated system of indirect election...
...that the Faculty Committee refused recognition to the New Student because it disapproved of the magazine's political opinions. However, the CRIMSON has felt that in deliberating "whether the New Student was in fact a Harvard student publication," the Committee allowed the political nature of the magazine to have indirect effect. Here are two reasons for this belief...
Several times in the history of Harvard there have been frontal and indirect attacks on freedom of thought, Buck noted. He cited as examples the restriction of anti-slavery discussion a century ago and more recently the attempt to prohibit Dunster House students from reading Norman Douglas' "South Wind...
...whose 16,258 population made it the largest town in North America, seemed to him the most civilized in the colonies. Even so, he found that "The middling sort of people here are to a degree dissingenuous and dissembling, which appears even in their common conversation in which their indirect and dubious answers to the plainest and fairest questions show their suspicions of one another." But the women, added Hamilton, were "for the most part, free and affable as well as pritty. I saw not one prude while I was here...
...special government decree which sent householders scuttling for compasses and calendars. "The figure for duration of useful sunshine," it read, "should be derived from the length of the longest day of the year (without clouds), counting the total period of sunshine into a room, including direct as well as indirect rays. Indirect rays are . . . those striking the face of a room at an angle of less than 15° and . . . include rays which do not penetrate a bay window of one meter in width...