Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...universities, a basic idea of democracy, "that truth will emerge victorious in a free contest of ideas," takes the form of "the distilled voodoo of academic freedom," Buckley, who is author of God and Man at Yale, continued. Universities do not take sides, because the acceptance of truth would involve the rejection of its opposite as an error, a violation of "academic freedom...
...existing seven Houses can physically make room for extra seats in the dining room, common room, and library, why not a supercargo of 'forgotten men' who, for a proper fee, can become attached to a selected House, grow up with it for three years, and take part in weekday luncheons, House athletics, special dinners, and social gatherings? In other words, become a recognized part of the House for all but breakfast, routine dinner, evening study, and sleeping quarters...
About a third get to the Square by bike or on foot, and their average time for a one-way trip is 15 minutes. Another third who drive or get rides with friends take about a half hour, and the others come by public transportation, averaging 45 minutes per trip. The average non-resident spends a working day of 8.5 hours somewhere at Harvard, and the 70 per cent who use Lamont spend three hours a day in the sterilized stacks...
Although your editorial entitled H.S.A. was in fact a criticism of the Student Council report with which I do not wish to take issue, many of their statements are taken by you as being true and in accord with your view I think it only fair to point...
...hope that in giving H.S.A. a "fair trial" you will take into consideration the facts as they exist today and not as they did two years ago. Phillppe Charat '60, H.S.A. President...