Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commuter. Although the non-resident ahs used the library with encouraging regularity, librarian Roman Rubinstein '55 said, "When I go home at night there are often books left there. I used to fight to get at Lamount before we opened here." His request is often repeated at Dudley--the plea to offer not just a negative carping against unsolved difficulties...
...Supreme Court of the State of Washington last week rejected, 5-4, the argument that fluoridation of a public water supply is unconstitutional. The court turned down Taxpayer Arthur A. Kaul's plea that he had been compelled against his will to drink fluoridated water. Said the majority opinion: "Liberty implies absence of arbitrary restraint. It does not necessarily imply immunity from reasonable regulations imposed in the interests of the community...
...purely by financial considerations. Such has been its technique in the most recent library controversy. But in spite of the attempt, the Student Council Library Committee has been able to show that no matter how it may try, or what it may say, the administration cannot reject the undergraduate plea for longer Lamont hours on grounds other than just plain "lack of funds...
...mere extra exam-time hours, then, is only a temporary solution. But such a plea has been repeatedly voiced in the last three years. The first real answer to it was the Lamont experiment at extra hours last exam period. When the administration announced this fall that it would again drop the plan, Stephen Reynolds '55 formed his Student Council committee to win back the extra time...
When the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation (TIME, May 24), some Manatee County taxpayers wanted to cancel their $1,750,000 school building authorization. Last week the Florida Supreme Court refused their plea, arguing that the new schools were needed and that it would take a long time to desegregate. Florida Justice Glenn Terrell said the U.S. Supreme Court decision was "a great mistake" and would "retard rather than accelerate" the removal of the inequalities that Negroes now suffer. He added: "To homogenize Topsy . . . and Mary who carried her little lamb to school is going to be slow and tedious...