Word: organism
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...concerning student life and ... shall have authority to establish and enforce social and other regulations. It shall ... provide a forum for the discussion of College affairs." RGA is thus intended and stipulated to operate within the College only, and in matters of College interest. It is a non-political organ, except in the sphere of intra-college politics...
Other purchases included, according to the prosecution, oil portraits of Stratton and his wife (supposedly for Stratton's 1956 campaign), a spinet organ, a manure spreader for Stratton's farm, a European trip for one of his daughters, a magazine subscription (Realties) for Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen. The defense replied that such items were either gifts or related to Stratton's political career. Said Defense Counsel William Barnett: "It is hard to say that even his toothpaste was not a deductible expense...
...total museum, the Met embraces all the muses. In its collection are 4,000 musical instruments from a baroque organ to Alpine zithers; and the museum's three Stradivarius violins are regularly lent for concerts in the Met's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Its priceless collection of 1,450 Greek pots includes all the known shapes of Attic vases across three centuries, except for one, an elusive type of lekythos. One corner of the museum contains an unequaled war lord's ransom of well-wrought jade in the Heber R. Bishop collection...
...decisions break rather cleanly into two areas: the requirements issue and the Gen Ed Committe issue. The first concerns the pattern of extra-departmental courses each student must take. The second concerns the administrative organ that will determine the details of that pattern. If the Faculty resolves the issues reasonably, a sound and worthwhile program may still emerge from this debate...
...Condescension Days a year. This condescension drips like ungentle rain on anyone beneath-club stewards, upstairs maids, college deans, headwaiters, and Mike Connor, an upstart Irish colleague in his uncle's brokerage house. Then, at age 30, "Lock" suddenly suffers a rupture in his social conscience, a vestigial organ that probably never bothered a Thompson before...