Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Watson, in effect liberalizing a controversial proviso in the current "Rules for Undergraduate Organizations," said, "I feel that no organization which has made a conscientious effort to get faculty sponsors, and has failed, should have its charter revoked or suspended for that reason alone...
...strained atmosphere has lightened considerably now, and the question of Faculty-student relations seems to be easing its way to settlement--not soon enough for the end of March perhaps, but soon enough to remind one of the Almanack's proviso. The Council has just heard a report, based on interviews with various Faculty members, which indicates that the Council would be welcome at meetings of Faculty committees...
...prefabricated units were built in the spring of 1946, with a proviso by the City that they were to be torn down in five years. The deadline has passed, but the University and the American Veterans Committee want the units to stand until after the present term is over. This would give veterans now living in the houses a chance to find new quarters...
...This proviso resulted from one of the factors which had thrown the future life of the program into jeopardy: the possibility that a student in it might be drafted before having completed the seven year span...
...Practicing Poet. No one at Oxford knows exactly what Henry Birkhead had in mind when he endowed a chair of poetry (established 1708) with the proviso that its occupant be elected every five years by convocation, i.e., popular vote. It is the only chair of its kind at Oxford or Cambridge. As the 33rd incumbent, C. Day Lewis will be one of the few practicing poets ever to occupy it. In the past, historians and theologians predominated. His most distinguished predecessor, Matthew Arnold, held the post two terms...