Word: standings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watson predicted that the Faculty would completely disagree with the Student Council committee's stand that Friday is not a working night. He pointed out that in the past 30 years, student action has only changed the parietal hours twice. "The Faculty members simply don't like to be bothered," he added...
...direct contrast to the University's theoretical stand in favor of individuality, initiative, student responsibility, and the right to individual expression, the Administration assumes an often stifling concern for the welfare and conduct of Penn students. It is highly unlikely that students at any other Ivy League institution received a letter this summer from the president stating, "...it has been my custom to write a letter calling attention to certain qualities which we feel the University may properly expect of its students. Foremost among these are honesty, self-reliance, a high standard of personal conduct, and a concern...
...doing, the Supreme Court let stand a six-day delay granted the union by an appeals court in Philadelphia Tuesday when it upheld the back-to-work order issued earlier by a U.S. district judge in Pittsburgh. That delay--intended to give the union time to carry its case to the Supreme Court--is due to expire Monday...
Watson lives in this section, and hence is couting on strong support from his neighborhood because of his vigorous stand. This boils down to a straight play for votes since Watson can scarcely claim to influence the State highway department in its choice of a route...
Basically, the CCA represents what can easily be termed the "better elements" of the Cambridge community, the intelligentsia. Non-partisan in scope, the CCA preaches a goal of "Good City Government for Cambridge." Ideally, this vague phrase should stand for the best in American democracy--that is, an honest, efficient, and just administration--an objective the CCA says Cambridge deserves. Practically speaking, however, the phrase means something negative: to keep the traditional bossism, favoritism, and power politics out of Cambridge's city government...