Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should have their wrists slapped and be censured for their "impoliteness." It may be true that some of their door-knocking aroused from slumber a few apathetic Harvard men. We should like to point out however, that their methods of inviting people to come to their meetings, which you refer to as shock tactics, were ever so much more polite than the tactics your reporters sometimes use to wangle a story from students who, you say, have the traditional Harvard right to be left alone. More than one student has been awakened by the rude ringing of his telephone...
...which Texas was admitted to the Union which specifically provided for ownership out to a ten-mile limit as opposed to the three-mile limit claimed by the other states. For a more exact account of the arguments raised in favor of state ownership may I refer you to the Congressional Record for Wednesday, April 2nd. With reference to the disposition of the funds raised by federal ownership of the tidelands, in the first place it is not considered good budgetary practice to earmark funds, in the second it would be poor policy to earmark funds for a politically controversial...
...questionnaire itself. As pointed out in yesterday's editorial, and as recognized by the Report's authors, the poll's questions require some guesswork. The questions used for this section of the Report are by necessity even vaguer than those used in the section on teaching methods, for they refer to what goes on within students--changes which are difficult to perceive and even harder to distill into a phrase or two. This inevitably led to imprecise and qualified conclusions...
...believe, however, that there is some reason to fear lest a dual system of secondary education may in some states, at least, come to threaten the democratic unity provided by our public schools. I refer to the desire of some people to increase the scope and number of private schools. At present the proponents of such a movement are often not outspoken in their demands, but a dual system of schools with tax money flowing in some form to private schools seems to be a possibility in some peoples' minds. In this connection I think it is only fair...
...sample of this feeling: West German newspapers frequently refer to the Soviet zone as "Middle Germany," meaning that East Germany, which Germans eventually hope to get back, is what lies beyond the Oder-Neisse, in satellite Poland...