Word: mete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School Committee candidate Larry Weinstein, who was a preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard for 8 years, disagreed. "I must say, for all the criticism certaim elected officials mete out to Harvard, Harvard has done more and more for schools," he said, citing University efforts such as Citystep, Phillips Brooks House tutoring, and educational programs at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
When conservative students last year razed a shantytown constructed by student divestment activists, critics on both sides of the issue charged that McLaughlin failed to take definitive action or mete out just punishments. Three years ago, he was also criticized for overriding a faculty vote against reinstating the campus ROTC program...
...disrupting a spech, we would not have this problem. A single example would deter others. But in every case, from the students who threw paint ballons at Caspar Weinberger to those who drove Wilson Goode and his entire audience out of the hall, the University has refused to mete out any meaningful discipline. In the absence of deterrence, the Club needs, and our speakers demand, adequate security...
...years of existence, the CRR has not functioned as an independent arbiter of individual freedoms. Rather, it has been called on by the administration to mete out discipline in cases in which students have been involved in coordinated political activities. Its role has been both to intimidate student activists and to deflect responsibility for punishing students away from University Hall. The COI's functions, on the other hand, are ambiguous at best. It has no authority either to levy sanctions or to demand redress. Moreover, it can do little even to investigate grievances. Perhaps the COI's role...
...ironic that our society, which has developed its degree of strength and magnanimity from immigrants, should mete out so much ill will to people who have been cruelly mistreated and who have no other home. Perhaps, as Americans, we take our own comfort for granted, and therefore find it difficult to relate to victims. Most of us, after all, enjoy the luxury of waking up from our nightmares...