Word: prevented
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...legislature." This warning assumes that a political problem--the legitimate distribution of power in this community's government--cannot be solved legally under existing Massachusetts statutes. It also suggests that if state legislators are given an opportunity they will impose their reactionary will on Harvard to prevent a fair reform. Most who think about these problems conclude that they will have to be satisfied with whatever half-measures the Corporation and Overseers might be willing to grant...
Notre Dame, whose comparatively docile students bear little resemblance to the activists at Berkeley or Columbia, has suffered only modest demonstrations. The one that aroused Father Hesburgh occurred last November, when students held a lie-in in front of the administration building to prevent students from attending interviews with a CIA recruiter. Hesburgh denounced the lie-in as "clearly tyranny," said in his letter that Notre Dame could not tolerate "anyone or any group that substitutes force for rational persuasion," warned that angry reaction to campus violence from legislators might suppress the liberty of universities and "may well lead...
...this end wish to affirm our complete support for the program endorsed by Afro, and the striking teaching fellows. We herewith state and affirm our intention not to rest until these demands are met, and urge all students who wish to prevent a recurrence of the present crisis as well as the continuation of Harvard's present irresponsibility to join us until these goals are achieved. LEE A. DANIELS CLYDE E. LINDSAY
...other issues have nothing to do with ROTC. The rents charged for University-owned apartments are below those of the general market. At the moment indeed they are not sufficient to prevent this part of the University's endowment from being a drain on other funds needed to support Faculty, student aids an doher educational activity. There are no plans to tear down any apartments on University Road nor are any homes being torn down to make way for Harvard Medical School expansion...
...change reduced the amount that the company set aside on its books to reflect the degree by which its plant and equipment wore out in 1968. Net income increased, just as it would after a reduction in any other expense. Most other steelmakers took similar steps, partly to prevent unwanted takeovers by conglomerates...