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...Harvard was a considerably less genteel spot than the College rules would lead one to expect. For amusement, almost every undergraduate joined a club, and these existed often only for bacchanalian orgies. The best remembered organization of the period was the "Med. Fac.," which Quincy unsuccessfully tried to suppress in 1834. Secret meetings of the Med. Fac. were highlighted by libations from a silver chamber-pot or by hazing of unknowing freshmen; the administration railed against the breeches of discipline this body created, but did not suppress it until this century...
...C.I.O. affiliate, offered their services-at $5 a week-as undercover editors of the C.I.O. News. The column "Checking the Press" had been introduced in 1950 with the News's hope that it would "succeed in forcing the daily papers to report the news that they now suppress...
...famous discipline which regulates Methodist teaching protests against Catholic teaching. Would you in public office be required to protest or suppress Catholic teaching as directed in this document? The moral, concluded The Pilot: "Anyone can play this game, if he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty...
...fanged monster. It was all supposed to demonstrate how Khrushchev has posed as both do-gooder and demon in waging his war of nerves over West Berlin. But it was too sacrilegious for Wilhelmina's taste. It became known last week, despite the Handelsblad's attempt to suppress news of its loss, that Reader Wilhelmina had written the daily a sharp letter of reproof, canceled her subscription...
...others cheered the second French Revolution. Wrote famed Intellectual Andre Maurois: "It's a good thing to suppress the orals, which are fatal for the timid. An individual can express himself fully in writing, give a survey of his true value on an exam paper, but be incapable of developing his ideas aloud." Added Author Jean Dutourd: "The reform pleases me, for it seems to be a step toward the suppression-pure and simple-of this entire monstrous examination...