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...Committee also probed the undergraduates' insistence that morality was a private decision in which the University should not attempt to become involved. One Committee member asked whether seventeen-year-olds were old enough to make a moral decision wisely. Another pointed out the University had to be concerned with the actions which occur on College property...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: Overseers Hold Parietals Talks; Indicate Concern With Morality | 12/8/1964 | See Source »

...Seventeen alumnae volunteers helped with the registration, which began at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Agassiz and remained open throughout the entire three-day council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 153 Register, Representing 59 Classes | 11/19/1964 | See Source »

...freedom house, drivers glaring at summer volunteers who sit on the porch. Or the carloads of white men, speeding past on the highway screaming curses into the wind and thrusting their arms into the air in obscene gestures. Every field worker experienced the automobile chases by dark and daylight. Seventeen cars chased freedom workers back to Holly Springs at speeds over 100 m.p.h. after one night meeting in Oxford, Miss. But more often its just a pickup without any license plates or a police...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...freedom house, drivers glaring at summer volunteers who sit on the porch. Or the carloads of white men, speeding past on the highway screaming curses into the wind and thrusting their arms into the air in obscene gestures. Every field worker experienced the automobile chases by dark and daylight. Seventeen cars chased freedom workers back to Holly Springs at speeds over 100 m.p.h. after one night meeting in Oxford, Miss. But more often its just a pickup without any license plates or a police...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

...Seventeen-year-old Joseph, the beleaguered anti-hero of Bruce Jay Friedman's second novel, is subjected to nearly as many adolescent indignities as his Biblical namesake had to suffer. Instead of being tossed down a well by envious brothers, this Joseph is tyrannized by his mother Meg, a bosomy termagant with some of the less attractive qualities of Medea, Medusa and Jocasta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Megomania | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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