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Considine explained that his Committee, an outgrowth of wide undergraduate sentiment that the Council could be made more democratic, would keep its original pledge not to disband until its suggestions are duly considered by the Council. He reiterated the group's two basic recommendations: to supplant elections-at-large by direct mechanisms and to allot to the basic units of the undergraduate body, the Houses, proportional delegation to the Council...
After an informal poll of students in the class meeting of English 23b yesterday morning. Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, indicated that the present arrangement of the course-into Shakespearian tragedies and comedies-would be continued next year. This will supplant the list in the new catalogue, which is a return to the pre-1945 division into early and late plays...
Swearing Is Not Basic. "Every time the Big Three meet," says Richards, "the need for a universal language is emphasized." Basic, being all English, is not a synthetic tongue like Volapük, Esperanto, Europan or Ido; and Richards neither hopes nor expects to see Basic supplant regular English. "It's too dull," he says, "and you can't swear...
...late nineteenth century, the number if books in Harvard's library was estimated to double every 20 years, and a cry was raised for a larger building to supplant overflowing Gore Hall. The total of books has quadrupled in the past 40 years, but the need now is for a smaller building--not so much to house the overflow, but to arrange the existing collection for the greater convenience of students...
Frolicking Fascist. The family feud began when Mussolini first threatened to supplant diminutive King Victor Emmanuel III with his cousin, Emmanuel Philibert. Mussolini later showered affection upon Emmanuel Philibert's two towering pro-Fascist sons, Amedeo and Aimone (who later married beautiful Princess Irene of Greece...