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Before the second World War it was possible for exceptional seniors to omit as much as a full course from the required total, but this practice was discontinued. And 30 years ago it was common for the Faculty to give incoming students credit for advanced secondary school work...
...evident that the actions of Senator McCarthy have been in the past, and are continuing to be, too rashly considered by the press, and consequently, by Americans in general. The two contrasting opinions, the one condoning him, the other condemning him, omit any sort of rational criteria. The former attaches its validity to the fact that the senator in question is most assertively anti-communist. Therefore, they reason, he is right, and they seem to evade any ethical or moral judgment, as irrelevant to the asumption that he is essentially good. The latter, meanwhile, attacks him from the opposite standpoint...
...word Catholic is to be used, it should be preceded by the word Roman ... If our denominations were named as the Roman Church is named, we would be known as Presbyterian Catholics or The Catholic Church (Methodist) or The Lutheran Catholic Church . . . If we omit the word Catholic when referring to our own churches, however, it seems logical that we should also omit it when we mention the Church of Rome...
...Student Council, for the first time in five years, approved a Combined Charities list which does not include the Salzburg Seminar. The Council passed on a list submitted by the Combined Charities Committee, which voted last Thursday to omit Salzburg from the student organizations...
...words, is it reporting what speakers say or only the reflections of its own views ... in what speakers say? Secondly, has not a newspaper some obligation (to the speaker himself) to give a fairly balanced account . . .?" Hartnett was considering a drastic remedy: "I for one am strongly tempted to omit public criticism of Mr. McCarthy in the future, because I do not want to continue to distract reporters or editors from opinions I wish to express on other subjects ... If the Senator is guilty of publicity-seeking, as the Times very likely thinks he is, he seems [to get] gratuitous...