Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first LoPresti story was headlined GIRL SLAIN, with a subhead "Senator Charges," LoPresti accused Dr. Van Waters of attempting to hush up the "murder," and produced a pathetic statement from the girl's parents to the effect that the "victim" wanted desperately to live, and could not have committed suicide. LoPresti himself stated that he had seen signed statements about beatings the girl was alleged to have received, "and about what happened in Dr. Van Waters' little iron curtain empire on the day of the murder." But in spite of certain dubious evidence that LoPresti produced in the American, even...
...Statements & Statements. Life, says the count, is made up of nonverbal facts, each one different from another and each one forever changing. A man's nervous system can never take in all the characteristics of a particular fact: it merely "abstracts" certain parts and reacts to those. After abstracting once, a man will abstract again to make a verbal statement about the fact. He can then go on to make statements about statements about statements...
This is to inform you that the statement of NSA delegate, Edward F. LaCroix '48, in Friday's CRIMSON regarding the Harvard Displaced Persons Project was unauthorized and, in one respect, factually incorrect...
LaCroix's statement that, "Provost Buck is willing to waive tuition for seven displaced persons to enter the college next fall," is, at the moment, nothing more than wishful thinking. The International Activities Committee hopes that the college will grant financial assistance to displaced persons in their first year in the United States. This would be done from special funds, however, and there would certainly be no "waiver." Provost Buck has not yet issued a policy decision on this matter, and when he does it, it will come from his office...
...intention to withhold facts from the CRIMSON, but merely to present them at a time when, in conjunction with Provost Buck's statement of policy, they would give the undergraduate body the clearest picture of what is going on. . . Rov M. Goodman '51, Chairman, International Activities Committee Harvard Student Council