Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Barnes entered the School Committee picture when Judson T. Shaplin, Associate Dean of the School of Education, decided not to seek re-election. Shaplin asked Barnes to replace him in the so-called "Harvard seat;" Barnes, who says he has always been interested in educational problems, accepted the bid and immediately received Civic Association support. Since then, he has spoken to almost every graduate and undergraduate political organization and has won a slew of endorsements that are encouraging but of doubtful value...
University officials should seek a policy on Federal loyalty requirements that "disrupts no educational careers while seeking needed reforms," the executive committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Student Council stated last night...
...assess the effects of the strike, and the prospects, if any, for solution. If the facts indicate that no solution is in sight, the President orders the Attorney General to go into a U.S. court for a "cease-and-desist" injunction to stop the strike. The Attorney General may seek contempt-of-court action if either side violates the injunction...
Derick Heathcoat Amory, 59, Chancellor of the Exchequer. A tall, angular bachelor who has served ably in several ministries (Pensions, Board of Trade, Agriculture), Heathcoat (pronounced hethcut) Amory never appears to seek power, but is ready and willing when it is thrust upon him. Many British pols believe that he will eventually make his muted, diffident way to the Prime Ministry itself, but his age, even more than Rab Butler's, is against him. For the present he will probably keep his job at the Treasury...
...students who want extra learning will not make up for the majority who are content to stay with the old schedule. Only a radical approach like the four-quarter program seems likely to break through the inertia and provide the efficiency, economy, and opportunity which the more conventional proposals seek to duplicate...