Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tight student government is not, and has never been, the aim of the Student Council. It has maintained the loose form of non-powerful student organization unique to Harvard and its House system. Should the Student Council disband, the only voices for student opinion and student views at Harvard would be those of the CRIMSON and WHRB. As much as I respect several of my friends on the CRIMSON I do not think that an undemocratic, self-perpetuating, non-representative group of men would be able to speak authoritatively for the student body...
...more effective Council will result. Obviously, however, future loopholes will develop with changing situations as in any democratic body.... The suggestion that administration appointed students write the reports is in itself poorly made. Such a system would only take these reports far from the realm of student oriented opinion, as well as cast doubt upon the representative character of the report...
HYRC operations director Alec B. Dawson '59, who is in charge of contacting the HLU, stated, "In no way should our action be construed as an endorsement of Wang. We merely feel that every opinion has a right to be expressed. We would like to cooperate with the Liberal Union in providing a vehicle for Wang in his attempt to express his opinions...
...absence of an assist from the U.S., the rebels will keep up the bombing campaign, which they hope will tell public opinion that "there is a rebel organization." Most Havana citizens, once angry at bomb terror, now seem to enjoy seeing the strongman's authority flouted, and the rebels have become expert at producing the maximum bang with minimum injury. When 90 bombs exploded in Havana a month ago, only eight people were hurt, no one killed...
...medical opinion (as relayed by Press Secretary James Hagerty) to the contrary, many physicians hold that it is 95% certain that the President has arteriosclerosis; otherwise it is most improbable that he would have had a heart attack in the first place. And in elderly patients who have heart attacks, there is usually simultaneous involvement of the brain's arteries, so that parts of them are inelastic and narrowed, offering points of resistance that invite clot formation...