Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trustees, on the other hand, were well aware of the engagement's implications when they met April 19. By a vote of 26 to 4, they agreed to allow the Hiss invitation to stand, but voiced unanimously their "disapproval of the students" who offered the bid. In its action, the Board disregarded blasts from several influential alumni, including a north New Jersey group which noted in a Princetonian advertisement that the issue would hurt Princeton's Annual Giving program...
...Hiss in spite of wide prostest was a great boost to University morale. "There is terrific reaffirmation of Princeton's principles. Gregory the appearance of Alger Hiss was a heartening Philosophy departments. Now his invective became so extreme that practically everyone on campus joined in the ridicule. He met incessant boos and jeers at his anti-Hiss, anti-Princeton talk on the eve of the great event, and caused a minor demonstration when he asserted, "Princeton is in its darkest hour...
Last week the 97 elected delegates to Tunisia's first constituent assembly met in Tunis, less than nine miles from the ruins of once proud Carthage, which boldly challenged ancient Rome for world supremacy. Now, in long subjected Tunisia, a new nation was being born. Opening the inaugural sessions, the spade-bearded, well-tailored old Bey of Tunis gracefully bowed to the new spirit of democracy, dispensed with the traditional custom which once decreed that every Tunisian present should kiss his hand in token of submission...
Uchimura prayed to his Shinto gods to protect him from becoming a Christian, but to no avail. He was converted, and with six friends he formed a congregation. They met in a dormitory room, preached from a flour barrel, and rotated the office of preacher among them...
...worried group of stockholders met in Detroit early this week at the Studebaker-Packard annual meeting. There they heard a statement from President James J. Nance that the company was in trouble...