Word: instructed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This month, however, Judge Robert Sévenier, the Fifth Republic's chief arbiter on the subject, will instruct town clerks to consider family history and local usage in weighing names. Judge Sévenier defends the name game as necessary to protect infants against "inconceivable and often absurd names." Sévenier himself winces at the father in Savoie whose surname was Cocu-Cuckold, and who named his son Parfait-Perfect. The Republic could do nothing: Parfait was a saint who has been revered in France since...
...Everyone except Lecanuet represented the old regime. Lecanuet was a change," Patrick L. Higonnet '58, instruct or in History, said last night. Higonnet explained that most of the young intellectual middle class are hostile to DeGaulle's anti-Europeanism and were attracted to Lecanuet's program of European cooperation...
...green, scared, pompous, moralistic and tactless. Vergennes, the French Foreign Minister, who intended to be "master of the peace," gave a sharp tug on the purse strings and "persuaded" the Continental Congress to divide its peacemaking powers among five commissioners.* A little later he also forced Congress to instruct its commissioners "to undertake nothing in the negotiations for peace without the knowledge and concurrence of the ministers of France." To make sure these incapacitating instructions were honored, Vergennes had the commissioners shadowed and their mail opened before delivery...
...fact, the CEP's program offers the prospect of a battery of new upper-level courses, differing in content and perhaps in pre-requisites. To enhance this prospect, the Faculty should instruct the Committee on General Education to require calculus for upper-level Natural Science courses. Thus a professor in the sciences could expect a class with some background in science and advanced mathematics, and could plan a General Education course at the same time stimulating and rigorous...
...years Miss Clapp reckoned that she had completed her job. Last week she announced that she will resign next July. "I am convinced," she said, "that Wellesley is at a point in time when it will benefit from fresh vision and new leadership." Characteristically, she then proceeded to instruct her faculty on how to elect a committee to help choose her successor, and even on what to do in case of a tie vote. Whereupon, without fuss or fluster, she skipped off to a secluded vacation. Few faculty members shared her serenity and poise, and many failed to squelch...