Word: newmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Harrison, editor of the Boston Chronicle (a Negro newspaper), and the statements of Dean Monro strike me as the most useful comments to appear thus far. Dean Monro properly underlined the fact that several student associations based essentially upon exclusive or discriminating norms already exist (e.g., the Newman Club of Catholic students, and the Hillel Society) and intimated the hypocrisy of those who would discard this fact in their haste to judge the Afro-American Association out of bounds...
There are those who neither rebel nor assert egos but are consumed by a vision, like Buddha, Pascal, St. Joan, Mary Baker Eddy. There are the converts who see a sudden or a slow light for which they surrender their past, like St. Paul or Mary Magdalene or Cardinal Newman. There are those who are willing to defy the class or service to which they belong, like Savonarola or Franklin D. Roosevelt or Billy Mitchell, and those who fulfill their individuality in the sometimes more difficult discipline of submission...
...Mary B. Newman (R-Cambridge) pointed out that 15 of the last 20 sessions of the legislature had gone beyond June 30, and said the lawmakers would be "kidding the people of the commonwealth" if they set a deadline they could not meet...
After the vote, Rep. Mary B. Newman (R-Cambridge) said that there was "still plenty of time" to pass an abolition bill in future years. She said that the outcome of another vote would be the same unless something "demonstrated with unmistakable clarity" the evils of capital punishment...
...Newman said that this year's bill, however, had forced "a number of people to examine what they really think" about the subject. An abolition bill will be passed within two to four years, she predicted, since the number of legislators favoring abolition has grown steadily...