Word: quelled
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...these rules is just another bullet point on the list of the Harvard administration's crackdown on fun. The font of the bulletin's title is consumed in flames, indicative of the heated debate between students who are looking for an outlet for fun and administrators who hope to quell those very thoughts. On the same day that Q TIPS was distributed to Quincyites, students completed tabling for their annual spring game of Assassin, a game which the Freshman Dean's Office and Lowell House have forbidden their constituents from playing this spring. While the Quincy rules for Assassin prohibit...
...controversy over discrimination and the military has spurred at least one college campus to take creative steps to quell student protests...
...controversy over discrimination and the military has spurred at least one college campus to take creative steps to quell student protests...
...staff should not expect the administration to quell Harvard's driven student body. We should demand an official dean of students because Harvard's zeal deserves better student services: bringing more of the outside world to campus for career guidance, as well as entertainment purposes; having the power to initiate an increase in student group space and funding; instituting twilight library and dining hall hours; fostering more student-staff interaction. While the administration could do much more to make student life rewarding, the fact that Harvard students can't seem to find time for love is our own fault...
...perhaps not enough heart. Eleanor was the "eyes and ears" of her wheelchair-bound husband, his pipeline to African Americans, Jews and other disfranchised people. Her middle-aged, maternal image gave the New Deal its most compassionate face. In 1940, F.D.R. dispatched Eleanor to the Democratic Convention to quell a revolt against his choice of political outsider Henry Wallace as running mate. "This," she told the convention, "is no ordinary time," and the force of her presence ended the crisis...