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...committee was empowered to recommend dismissal for "one or more of the following reasons: a) incompetency, b) neglect of duty, c) physical or mental incapacity, d) dishonesty or immorality, or e) conviction of a felony involving moral turpitude." Reasons c and e were discarded by the group and it conducted the hearings to find out whether any of the other three "causes" were present in the cases of the accused teachers...
...report likewise found that membership in the Communist Party cannot be considered either immoral or in neglect of duty. However, this report of five members indicated that it might be desirable to change the code so that membership in the Communist Party would be sufficient for dismissal. The dissenting report of the three men who also felt that both Phillips and Butterworth should be kept on the faculty concerned itself mainly with the last point. These three men were definitely against prohibiting members of the Communist Party from teaching...
Extracurricular. In Columbus, Ohio, Dr. John F. Cuber, former Director of Ohio State University's Marriage Counseling Clinic, was sued for divorce on grounds of neglect...
Next Year ... Israel's strongly secular government, many of whose officials neglect to keep the Sabbath, went all out for the "Feast of Liberation." In accordance with a Jewish law that all regular cooking utensils must be put away during Passover week, the Israeli army formally sold all its pots & pans to a Gentile, with the tacit agreement that it would buy them back at. week's end. In Jerusalem's New City, the authorities erected a triumphal arch. From atop Mount Zion, Jewish pilgrims peered down into the Arab-held Old City; the Arabs...
...Metropolitan has been trumpeting a good deal about its new opera, Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." I suspect that the fanfare has been, at least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone...