Word: interment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...petition is now being circulated which calls for a referendum on the Council's existence, and in light of recent Council actions it will receive widespread support. However, the proposed substitute medium of student representation would be an Inter-House Council with adequate Union Committee membership--almost exactly what was accomplished by the recent action of passing the Student Council constitutional changes...
Eventually, the student body will be called upon to choose between an Inter-House Council or the revised Student Council. It is not too soon to start weighing the relative merits of each. D. Dwight Dogherty, Jr., Student Council Representative Class...
Disposing, for the moment, of the theory that Harvard can change the NSA by getting out of it, the controversy boils down to a debate over whether the NSA can offer the College anything of value. If participation in inter-college discussions on pilot programs for high-school teaching, on the problem and solution of racial integration, and on the problem of Federal aid to education is valuable, then NSA has something to offer...
Certainly the substitute which the Council proposes is an unreal and valueless one. It is but another of the interminable and inconsequential inter-college bull sessions. The NSA is an action group. Moreover, the Council's ersatz NSA will have little or no remedial effect on the real article. The supposition that NSA relies on Harvard support for its prestige and will mend its admittedly mendable ways because of Harvard's withdrawal is a preposterous one. The same technique failed when Soviet Russia walked out of the U.N., and there is no indication that it increases in efficacy...
Success was a long time in coming. The Guild rejected Welcome to Our City, and Wolfe remained steadfast in his refusal to trim it to a practical length. For six years he lived as a vagabond, teaching sporadically at N.Y.U., and roaming over the face of inter-war Europe. At times he was exultant, but often hopeless and despondent. From Brussels he wrote: "At 23, hundreds of people thought I'd do something. Now, no one does--not even myself. I really don't care very much...." Finally in 1929 Look Homeward Angel was published, and Thomas Wolfe came into...