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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the humor inherent in the situation, these deadlocks have their more serious aspects. Cambridge is not a village, and long delays in considering its business may cause serious hardships for Cantabrigians. During the previous balloting marathons, the city's budget, sewerage and street repairs, as well as other important municipal affairs were delayed while the Council fiddled with the mayoralty...
...during the 1948 war and have been encamped in unspeakable bitterness and misery around Israel's borders ever since. Their plight is the Arabs' most effective moral case against Israel. "Israel is not prepared under any circumstances," Sharett reiterated last week, "to return and resettle refugees." His previous offer to accept 100,000 Arab refugees is now withdrawn...
...during reading period, many students chalked up one more boner for their Council. The organization dedicated to representing student opinion appeared less enterprising than the librarian in desiring to meet student demands. Though the Council's decision not to pressure for longer hours had resulted from careful consideration of previous year's figures, it hardly showed initiative...
...however, the Council's 1955 record is at least even. Handicapped by its inability to retain one president for any considerable length of time, the group still managed to accomplish its usual odd jobs quietly, and usually efficiently. It succeeded in reorganizing the Class Day Committee, thereby unifying two previous committees and setting up a far more satisfactory election system. During the Spring, the Council took steps to avoid in the future the kind of financial fiasco it was to experience this fall: it initiated a capital found, hoping that Councils eventually will be able to subsist largely...
...bottom five men, who make up the "D" league, all had little or no match experience previous to this year. However, Wynn is very pleased with the fine spirit which the group has shown throughout the season and feels that the players are "really coming along on their fundamentals." Barnaby echoed this sentiment when he said that "the boys have made a lot of progress and should provide some good varsity material if they continue to develop...