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...administrator in a panic before an exam, he tels them to get a good night's sleep. If they come to him in a panic after an exam, he tells them to go to the instructor and beg for mercy, in which case the instructor wil sometimes relent and give an impromptu oral exam for partical credit...
Ford's Concern. Afterward, the editors gathered in Daniel's office and agreed that since the lunch was off the record, the Times could not print the President's disclosure. When Daniel tried to get Nessen to relent and put the quote on the record, the press secretary stood firm. A day or two later, Daniel chatted with Reporter Hersh about the CIA's possible role in foreign assassinations, but Daniel says he did not reveal the President's mention of the subject; in any case, Hersh kept busy on the story's domestic...
...Mass. Hall sit-in conducted by the members of DISC last April underscored Advisory Committee Chairman Andrew F. Brimmer's complete denial of their proposals' legitimacy, and, when Brimmer would not relent, Bok's failure to openly address the issues Brimmer especially, should not have excluded DISC so off-handedly. But now that it has rightly begun to recognize DISC, the DuBois advisory board should continue to listen to the groups' ideas and incorporate them into its conception of the Institute...
Harvard-Radcliffe's dance program has more character and problems than just an idiosyncratic building, however, The University is not malevolent towards its dancers, but it is not cooperative either. The budget for dancers-dance is strictly extra curricular does not relent. So dance at Harvard has to run on love and wile...
...source not far removed from the current negitations said yesterday that the Kennedys are so mad at Harvard for not applying pressure on the community to relent on its museum-must-go demands, that they would not mind taking their money and running to the most advantageous site, probably Cape Cod at this point...