Word: reconsiderations
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He concludes that Harvard should reconsider its constitutional set-up, and ask itself this question: "Can the complex modern university he governed both wisely and satisfactorily without effective, constitutional participation of its faculties in the decision of questions of general policy bearing directly on their several education functions?"
In the past two years undergraduates have become increasingly vocal on the subject of Faculty appointments. Culminating a year in which hundreds of undergraduates petitioned President Conant to reconsider administrative decisions, the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last June openly indicted President Conant for the summary dismissal of ten...
...list of grounds, thus drastically curbing the executive powers of those agencies. A provocative, extremely controversial bill, it was rolled through the Senate by Senator Logan one day when his Kentucky colleague, Leader Barkley, was napping (TIME, July 31). Logan acceded last week to Barkley's plea for reconsideration, but vowed to bring the bill up again next session...
Sleepy "Shay" Minton managed to detain Senator Logan's passed bill at the Senate's threshold last week by a motion to reconsider, but if it passes the House this week, Kentucky's Logan will have a historic triumph over "administrative autocracy."
Old Chairman Carter Glass* of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who remembers when the whole U. S. Govern-ment ran itself on a billion dollars a year, last week rose to his feet in horror. Before the Senate was a bill appropriating $1,218,000,000 to run the Department of...