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...nation, their desertion, in time of trial, of scholars and teachers whom, through years of association, they had found worthy of trust, is one of the most disastrous actions in the history of American education. What the letter really means can be most clearly seen in the sanction which it gives to actions such as this. And what those actions mean is revealed by the rising tide of political and social repression which now threatens the foundations of our national life.ZECHARIAH CHAFEE...
...embassy, they found on guard rows of red-capped Policía Armada, the heavy-handed troopers Franco employs to keep order in the cities. Sure of official sanction, the students surged on. The jittery police lost their heads. Brandishing heavy rubber truncheons, they laid open heads, clubbed shoulders, thumped backs. Amazed, then aroused, the students fought back with bricks, branches torn from trees, even shoes snatched off their own feet. Bystanders joined in, seizing the chance to strike at the hated Policia Armada. For two hours the fight raged, subsiding on one street corner to flare up on another...
...bigger, more damaging scandals. We believe the football community is true enough to its traditions to cleanse itself of these attitudes and practices without any effect on its morale. It needs only a pressure from the Administration and the other students to do so quickly. There can be no sanction to any student making a profit out of Harvard football...
According to Young, Dean Watson has given official sanction to the plan. Alumni will be asked to make their checks payable to the University and will thus be able to deduct their gifts from income tax statements...
Lunden stated the Dean's Office could not sanction the new procedure, because "a student must have this identification at all times...