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Mather's objection was in reality, based purely on principle for he had taken such oaths many times previously. All through his campaign he maintained that he had "no unwillingness to swear under conditions which make an oath appropriate." While a group of seniors circulated a petition supporting him, Mather...
When President Roosevelt was about to appoint Cordell Hull Secretary of State, five Democratic Senators complained that Hull was too idealistic for the job. The objection was unusual, and F.D.R. laughed it off; but this first biography of Hull shows that the Senators had a point.
Dining hall officials raised a further objection over possible overcrowding on popular date nights. Representatives from both dining services told the Masters that crowds might be unmanageable on weekends.
A major objection to the present regulations appears to be the purely administrative problem of what to do when a thesis is dropped. The answer to administrative inconvenience, however, should not be sought in arbitrary rulings and deadlines. Instead of the current ambiguity, the Faculty should consider requiring a 5000...
While correctly reporting Professor Friedman's objection to the so-called civil rights bill as a dangerous precedent in the face of over-riding prejudice of the majority of Americans, you reporter failed to mention what seem to be cogent historical parallels in the cases of Irish and Jewish emergence...