Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student Congress, in its first meeting of the academic year, debated for more than an hour a motion to censure the News for editorializing against ROTC in its articles and interviews as well as on its editorial page. One had only to read the issue in question to discover that the charge had no basis in fact. But censors, at B.U. as everywhere, rarely read; they attack, they condemn, which they bring their own prejudices and opinions to issues on which they will admit of no legitimate opposition...
...Reduce the amount of factual information and memorizing pressed upon the students, and to allow more time for students to read, discuss and think in the atmosphere of a graduate school, rather than of a trade school...
...bolt of Oswald's rifle can, in fact, be operated in 2.3 seconds, then Oswald definitely could fire 3 shots in less than 5.6 seconds, for a stop watch would be started when the first shot was fired; the second shot would be fired when the stop watch read 2.3 seconds, and the third shot would be fired when the stop watch read 4.6 seconds. You have apparently overlooked the fact that, in the time it takes to fire 3 shots, it is only necessary to operate the bolt twice...
Almost all the results are automatically coded for the IBM cards; the electro cardiogram and chest X ray, however, have to be read by human experts...
...rejects some 60,000 men a year (between 40 and 50 per cent of the people examined), and, to complicate things, experiments conducted several years ago indicate that many "unfit" men simply don't want to be rehabilitated. (One project in which illiterates were drafted and then taught to read was unsuccessful...