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Since the Band is not a charity, Dogherty reasoned, the Student Council would set a bad precedent by placing it on the drive. Even though his views didn't prevail, Dogherty will support the Band's drive for funds...
...this University is premised. This is a belief in the value of dispassionate, rational inquiry into the nature of things... It is difficult for me to see how understanding will ever be achieved if the spirit which at times manifested itself during the question period last Friday night should prevail. Richard Buel Teaching Fellow in History
mind without soul may blast some universe to might have been,and stop ten thousand stars but not one heartbeat of this child ;nor shall even prevail a million questionings against the silence of his mother's smile
...Rock school board, respondents. Near by, in traditional cutaway and striped trousers sat Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin, representing the U.S. as amicus curiae (friend of the court). The issue before the court, like all great issues, was basically simple: whether the rule of law or of violence should prevail at Little Rock's Central High School. The legal situation was more complicated. Last June Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley of Arkansas' Eastern District ordered a 2½-year breathing-spell delay in integration at Little Rock. Last month in St. Louis, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court reversed...
...seems to me," said Rankin, "that we are now at the crossroads in this important question. The people of the country are entitled to a definitive statement from the court as to whether force and violence will prevail ... In some places school integration will take time, longer time than in others . . . But you must have a start." Throughout, the chamber sat quiet, the justices immobile, Thurgood Marshall with a slight scowl. Little Rock's Superintendent Virgil Blossom and Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright (on hand as a friend of the court to ask for more time in Little...