Word: restrictionism
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A university cannot be created or maintained in an atmosphere of fear and restriction, President Pusey told a luncheon meeting of the National Press Club yesterday in Washington.
Sophomore men at Middlebury have the worst academic averages, which is a reflection of the fraternity-sorority system as much as of the freedom-restriction differential. A little more than half the boys and half the girls join societies; the whole undergraduate body can't be taken. But the fraternities...
That same day President Eisenhower opposed the principle behind the Coudert amendment, calling it an artificial restriction upon the President's flexibility of action. Congressional leaders agreed with Eisenhower.
"This was not the first time a ban on firecrackers has been discussed, however," Leighton said. "It was seriously considered when the firearms restriction was passed shortly after the war ended."
Like Koerner, Bloom is Jewish and European-born. Brought to the U.S. from Lithuania by his shoemaker father, he was raised humbly in Boston. Bloom was introduced to painting in a settlement house, continued it on the WPA and gained fame in the early '40s. His first important canvases...