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...issue of the CRIMSON. My opinions represent the attitudes of a member of the Student Council but to a greater extent the reactions of a Harvard student to the editorial mentioned above. The editorial chides the Student Council for resorting to a "hastily-contrived inverse technique" in order to obtain a quorum. I agree that the lack of quorum in the Student Council's meetings on several occasions suggests a substantial indifference among its members--most of which indifference can not be attributed to the agenda or to the manner in which the Student Council meetings are conducted...
...previously elected Attorney-General Louis Wyman might induce the stalwart investigator to resign, Wyman will probably return to continue his persecution of dissent. And to furnish a further indication that this atmosphere will not change, the Attorney-General's chief target, pacifist Willard Uphaus, failed last week to obtain review of his latest appeal to the Supreme Court...
Parsons noted that in modern society technical specialization deprives people of a considerable amount of freedom. "It creates dependency--we have to respect technical competence because important desirable effects depend on it." But in return for abandoning our freedom (for example, to treat our own diseases) we obtain some other freedoms, such as the freedom of action which comes from being healthier, he said...
This time the Student Council's hastily-contrived inverse filibuster technique succeeded. After threatening to hold frequent meetings until it could obtain a quorum--and after calling a fifteen-minute recess at the first of these meetings to place a few judicious telephone calls to absentees--the Council came through...
...first part of the tune, which was composed by the bandmaster of a cruiser in 1932, bears a close resemblance to a pianoforte rendering by the bank manager of the clarinet music enclosed with your lordship's dispatch. The only further testimony I can obtain of the correctness of this music is that it reminds a resident of longstanding of a tune once played by a long-defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat infantry, and known at the time to noncommissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote the vernacular) Gawd Strike the Sultan Blind...