Word: right
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tell me what the temperature is right this minute. It's 81, isn't it?" Then he added, with a nod toward his daughter Margaret: "She owes me one dollar if it's 80 or over." The captain flushed, looked as though he wished he were dead, but refused to form an alliance with the President: the temperature was 70.8 degrees. "I'm afraid," said Captain Adell in a barely audible voice, "she doesn't owe you a dollar." the "Winter White House," and as he was driven up Truman Avenue (formerly Division Street...
Under the Dust. But there were difficulties. The legal right of the U.S. to move troops into Formosa was open to serious challenge. By the treaty of 1895, which followed the Sino-Japanese War, Formosa went to Japan...
Students too, and their organizations, should have the same rights. This is not merely an espousal of the liberal tradition under which Harvard operates, but a matter of sound administrative policy. As President Lowell pointed out in his classic statement on academic freedom, a University cannot regulate its professors' freedom of action without at the same time making itself responsible for everything that professors do. The parallel with student freedoms is striking. If the Dean's Office limits the freedom of student activities in order to solve the four problems outlined in previous editorials in this series...
...Freedoms of Harvard University students and the groups they form are not alienable. Just as the Harvard Dean's Office has not the right to limit the groups, so national organizations have not the right. Therefore Harvard organizations may not surrender to outside groups their right to freedom of action and must remain antonomous...
Although the names of those polled were anonymous to the student, the Social Relations Department recognized that this method could lead to abuse of their right to secrecy if the poll got into the wrong hands...