Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eagerly at Schindler's suspicions, puffed them into a demand that the Assembly reopen the investigation and call in Scotland Yard. He expected to be voted down, which could have left the suggestion that the Assembly Bay Streeters were covering up for one of their own. Instead, the motion was passed, thus in effect telling Stevenson to put up or shut...
...failure of nerve, Koestler believes, sabotaged these true starts toward knowledge. Faced with a Greek society already in decline, Plato equated any change with decay. For philosophic reasons, he decided that the sphere was the only perfect shape, that the world must be a perfect sphere and that the motion of heavenly bodies must be in perfect circles at uniform speed. Aristotle returned to the idea of an immobile earth and placed it in the center of nine concentric, transparent spheres, outside which was the Unmoved Mover who kept the whole machinery turning. To make the heavens jibe with Aristotle...
Several reports indicate the Administration feels assured that funds are not lacking for the freshman year project. Another reason given for the easy passage of the motion was the short, one year time limit proposed, which "leaves the Faculty in control...
When the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meets this afternoon, Dean Bundy will move to permit "experiments designed to intensify the intellectual experience of the freshman year." If the motion is carried without amendment, freshmen recommended next year by the Committee on Advanced Standing will receive course credit for supervised study in connection with the one-year experiment...
...motion was approved by the Committee on Educational Policy, with one member voting in opposition, and enthusiasm of key Faculty members for the project has been reported...