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...bills now pending before the General Court would radically extend the state's traditional power to grant, but not withdraw, charters to all institutions. The Doherty Bill' would give the state the authority to retract the charter of any educational institution, public or private, whose "curriculum, faculty, and facilities," do not meet with the state's approval. The 'Bulger-Doherty Bill' would enpower the state government to deny an institution the right to grant degrees. Both bills fail to stipulate upon what grounds the state shall disapprove of an institution's faculty or curriculum. One of the bills does...
...Although McCormack is extraordinarily thin-skinned himself, he can and does dish it out with one of the House's roughest tongues. Once, in the middle of a formal debate, he bluntly called Representative Earl Wilson of Indiana a "damned fool," and was required to retract his words. Again, in a 1953 argument with Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman, McCormack delivered an insult that is still recalled whenever Congressmen trade stories. "I would defend the Gentleman," he said, in a mockery of the politest parliamentary style, "because I have a minimum high regard for him." Once...
Second, he says we cheat. We claim not to recruit, but do; claim not to practice, but do. I say, let him cite chapter and verse and back up that dirty crack with specific proof, or let him publicly retract what he said--and on the front page in large type. Over several centuries, Harvard has stood for one thing if for nothing else--integrity. I, for one, consider this sort of mud slinging to be inexcusable and unworthy of any representative of Harvard. I also think it marks the lowest ebb in my experiences in CRIMSON editorial responsibility...
...Adamsons' Land Rover as a refuge when she is tired of suckling. The reader acquires some useful information-rhinos make "unexpectedly meek sounds" when they mate, lurking crocodiles will show themselves if one says "imn, imn," before fording a river, and a nursing lioness can retract her teats for convenience while hunting...
...open invitation to Mr. Khrushchev." Kennedy countered that the U.S. economic embargo of Castro was too little and too late. And even though both Kennedy and Nixon now agree substantially on the Quemoy-Matsu policy, Nixon still wanted to hear Kennedy say, "I now will depart, or retract my previous views. I think I was wrong in 1955, I think I was wrong in 1959"-and as Nixon spoke, the TV cameras switched to a grinning Kennedy, a grin which better than words indicated how little he felt inclined to oblige...