Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement of aims, the planning committee declared, "We propose a college which frees both faculty and students from the system which makes education a matter of giving and taking courses to cover subjects...
Indeed, it is very disturbing that neither exiled President Mirza and Revolutionary President Ayub nor your two worthy readers from Pakistan had anything to say in favor of democracy and civil rights. This is in great contrast to the statement of Prime Minister Nehru that the answer to the stupendous development of Communist China is a "challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion," not a Mirzaesque approach that democracy is unfit for this challenge...
...Telegram, pointed out that there was much truth in Allen's series. But Board Member Francis Adams, former New York City police commissioner, was fighting mad, and smooth-talking Baptist Pastor Gardner Taylor, the board's only Negro member, smelled a race issue in Allen's statement that a 15-year-old John Marshall girl often played truant, spent her days as a Harlem prostitute. The board voted to investigate the affair, including, as Adams said pointedly, "the manner in which Allen got into the school -whether it involved a misstatement under oath." (Allen admitted...
...There is no opera in America worth speaking of outside New York City," said the Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing not long ago. When the statement touched off explosions of operatic temper from one end of the country to the other (TIME, Oct. 13), Bing exempted San Francisco and Chicago from his blacklist. But last week the Chicago Lyric Opera concluded a ragged season by staging a production of Aïda that made Bing's apologies to Chicago seem entirely unnecessary...
What concerns me is a statement in the CRIMSON just a few days ago in which you quote me as saying that tuition should rise by 100 per cent immediately. I have never made such a statement. In fact, all my proposals are related to a program for the next ten or twelve years. What is more, my proposal relates to the general situation in the United States and does not mean that every college need double its tuition. Some will have to go up more and some less...