Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Faculty urges the Corporation not to use loan funds under Title II of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 until the Affidavit of Disbelief in Section 1001 (f) is removed, and not to participate in any other Federal program in which Harvard must take administrative responsibility for similar affidavits...
...from the confusion of accusations and defenses. On one side, it was reasoned that a university which includes members of many different religions should not officially embrace one to the exclusion of others; and some held further that it was not within the function of the contemporary Harvard to take any formal stand whatsoever concerning religion. The opponents of this view contended that commitment to religion necessitated the choosing of one, that just as a church can not be treated as a "cafeteria," as one professor described it, neither can Harvard be religious, abstractly, without carrying this belief into practice...
When students take the University-required swimming test, the results are recorded on a permanent record card. Then if the student wishes to use the boating facilities and has no boating restriction, his bursar's card is also stamped, to be presented by the student to the attendant at Weld boathouse...
...case, perhaps we ought to be a little humble before this reprimand, even thought we may know that we as individuals do not really deserve it. For we are not altogether guiltless, if only in that we have allowed ourselves to be so poorly represented. Surely we ought to take care not to make the egregious mistake of supposing that the issue is one-sided; and we ought scrupulously to avoid letting those lead us or speak for us who have made the imposition of the symbol imperative. Robert E. Gahringer, (Ph.D...
This handy division of labor permitted the Russians to play the two faced Janus. Their prominent role at the Festival allowed them to take credit for the existing fragments of "peace and friendship", while behind the closed door others could stoke the furnaces of power politics...