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Other churchmen, led by Canon Henry Graham, commended this "sensible custom." The result was a typical British compromise: a vote to delete all reference to ash-scattering from the new church law. This would neither prohibit the custom nor give it full and absolute sanction...
...hasty action, the Council has presented a standing invitation to axe grinders who want backing for causes only remotely related to College affairs. The group has probably forgotten that its support is often construed by strangers as sanction by the entire student body--an unfortunate fallacy...
Fifty percent of the Yale students polled were opposed to athletic scholarships in any form while 38 percent would sanction them "if other Ivy League schools gave them...
Problems such as clearance with the New York Musicians Union and sanction from the University had to be solved before the invitation could be officially tendered...
...Yalta agreement, negotiated, behind China's back, which opened the gates of Manchuria to Soviet armies. The Yalta deal was dismissed by the State Department with shallow cynicism as something the Russians could have done whether or not the U.S. had given its covert legal and moral sanction...