Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beside the American stood his British assistant, grey-haired, once debonair Edgar Sanders; a Hungarian barmaid (listed as "Baroness" to give her the proper upper-class air), Edina Dory, who had worked as an I.T. & T. switchboard operator; a Hungarian official of I.T. & T., Imre Geiger; and three more Hungarians accused of complicity in the "spy ring...
...second clause, the informer oath, apparently requires present members of the NROTC to report the names of anyone who knowingly affiliates with any of the aforementioned groups. I am inclined to oppose this provision on the grounds that the NROTC is not the proper authority to administer such a loyalty check. The FBI has done a capable enough job; I think NROTC members are not the proper judges for a matter requiring such careful discretion. Several members of the Free Enterprise society disagree quite heartily with men on the wiseness of this clause; it would hardly be fair...
...traced the development of the Council from an appointed Dean's Advisory group to an elected body which has two functions. Yesterday's editorial showed why the present Council subordinates its original advising function to a multitude of social service activities. This conclusion will show what the Council's proper functions are and how it should be organized to fulfill them...
Elected student representatives are not likely to spend their time in office quietly studying important College problems and making unspectacular reports to the Dean. Even though this may be their proper function, the members of an elected body will not do it for two reasons. In the first place, each councilman must show the friends who elected him that he is actively working for their personal benefit. In the second place, the type of person who runs for public office and is popular enough to be elected is not generally the type who is willing to bury himself in unacclaimed...
...rides home with drivers who are going home, and it publishes an extra-curricular activities bulletin. These services give the elected representatives direct, daily contact with the people who elected them. They are also more gratifying to the "political" personality. In fact, short range, social-service activity is the proper function of such an elected council...