Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...previous deliberation on the subject and without showing the common courtesy of consulting members of the existing squad as to their reaction to the change, adopted a program which this year adds four UAC members to the cheerleading group but at the same time insists that five of the present members not be allowed to finish cheering this season...
...cheerleaders recognize that they are under the aegis of the Undergraduate Athletic Council. However... they nonetheless feel that the UAC has unmistakeable moral obligation to allow the present members to complete their season of cheering...
...decision of the Undergraduate Athletic Council to beef up the cheerleading squad may result in more impressive "fight team"s, but the sudden action with which the present cheerleaders have been replaced is regrettable...
Listing charges against the present cheerleaders, the UAC referred to "complaints from students and alumni." But the claims involved are not so heinous that disciplinary actions or warnings could not have solved the problem...
This, in short, is the past-present, one which began with the Republic and which ended with the more rotund enormities of the Civil War period. Most of it, with its uncompromising verticality, its clinging ivy, its jutting, discreetly windows, survives in a comparatively limited area...