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Three Ivy athletic directors last night heartily approved of the new plan. Three others indicated tacit approval, but reserved final judgment until the faculty of their respective institutions had reviewed its provisions. And two other were unavailable for comment...
...responsibility expected of a Harvard student," the Dean's Office gave no indication that it would suddenly apply the general rule to the parking situation. Illegal parking has been going on for years without decanal admonishment. In effect, by not publicizing its attitude, the Administration was giving its tacit consent to minor parking violations by permitting them to continue so long. "We're doing this," Dean Leighton said on Wednesday, "so that the community will feel the University is acting with some perception of the parking problem." Surely the Administrative Board could just as effectively have shown its cognizance...
When the Ivy Eligibility Committee this month published a section of the league eligibility code in Ivy alumni magazines, it was doing more than issuing a tacit warning to alumni. At the same time with the statement was a subtle announcement that the committee had discovered a violation and had acted upon it--by declaring a Yale football player ineligible from intercollegiate competition. While such a general statement was ill-advised--the ultimate leakage of the story led to unnecessary publicity to names and facts--the judgment of the committee seems sober and correct...
...Morocco is perpetrated by native Moors, and not all the European guns are used in self-defense. In recent weeks, there has been an increase of cases of European terrorism aimed at the natives. Often the activities of the "counter-terrorists," as they call themselves, are conducted with the tacit complicity of local cops, who have little patience with the slow-moving machinery of French justice. "What?" bellowed one indignant Casablanca policeman recently. "Arrest Frenchmen for killing these Moroccan pigs? They ought to be given the Legion of Honor." Seeing Nothing. Morocco's French-colonial vigilantes are largely concentrated...
...campaign, but broke with the city machine this year. Reformer Merriam, with great public show, avoided voting in the 1954 elections so that he would be eligible to run for mayor as a Republican in 1955. He has the support of Republican County Chairman Ed Moore and the tacit approval of Governor William...