Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tonight at 7:30 in Lowell Lecture Hall, members of the Columbia Strike Steering Committee will speak about the strike and the issues which caused...
...those groups was evidently the five-man fact-finding board, headed by Archibald Cox '34, Samuel Williston Professor of Law. The strikers previously refused to talk with the board when it asked representatives to speak...
...violence. The main obstacle to reconciliation in the final days before the violence was the demonstrators' insistence on total amnesty. According to the Times, they even refused the administration's offer to let them off with "just a warning." From the viewpoint of the Majority Coalition, whose claim to speak for most Columbia students could not be disputed, the rebels' position seemed totally unjustifiable. It was the old story of a minority trying to impose its will on the majority, bringing memories of the Dow Demonstrations at Harvard. In light of the subsequent support the demonstrators won from the Majority...
They will probably get it, says Magnuson, who makes no bones about supporting archaeology and sponsored a bill that became law in 1960 requiring the National Park Service to explore any archaeological sites threatened by dam building. The Senator can speak with some confidence. He is chairman of the Senate subcommittee that controls appropriations for the National Science Foundation...
Wherever possible, Holroyd allows Strachey to speak for himself, whether he was dropping Bloomsbury epigrams (on T. S. Eliot: "I fear it will take him a long time to become a letter writer"), or taking his place as the boldest public wit since Wilde. Strachey never hesitated to flaunt his homosexual inclina tions. His finest moment may have come during his court hearing as a conscientious objector in 1916, when he was asked what he would do if he saw a German soldier raping his sister. Strachey paused two beats, then remarked: "I would try to interpose my own body...