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During the previous two weeks of his Selma drive. King had tried to steer clear of legal violations-particularly of breaking Selma's 1963 ordinance that bans "any parade or procession or public demonstration on the streets or other public ways of the city, unless a permit therefor has been secured from the council." Thus, in sending his followers to the county courthouse to try to register, he had carefully instructed them to move in groups of four or five, keeping at least 20 ft. apart...
...Henry cautiously turned for advice to the faculty senate, got back a strong statement from its committee on academic freedom backing every professor's right to be "as ungloriously wrong, and suffer the professional consequences thereof, as to be gloriously right, and receive the acclaim of his colleagues therefor." When the "privilege" of academic freedom is abused, said the committee without mentioning Oliver, "it must be recognized that the larger gain is in the brighter image of the university" presented to the scholarly world, as an institution "dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning, and one willing...
...Even to keep going with our present enrollment we need new and greater sources of income," Bundy asserted at a Boston press conference. He predicted, therefor, that the College would soon institute its fourth tuition hike since the war, and thereby keep in line with Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, "who are already up around the $1000 mark...
...freedom for three-quarters of their country. In Ireland's northeastern corner, which Britain yet holds, there is a small band of gallant Irish boys who still struggle for freedom. One of these, William Kelly, who contumeliously declared he would never swear allegiance "to a foreign Queen," was, therefor, as reported in your Dec. 14 story, convicted of "sedition" and given choice of binding himself "to be of good behavior" (be a nice, polite Briton) or go, a felon in felon's garb, to a convict prison. From the dock defiant, and vowing he would never accept...
...take Communion. "I would only be too happy to do so," scribbled U. S. Grant, "if I felt myself fully worthy. I have a feeling in regard to taking the sacriment [sic] that no worse sin can be committed ;han to take it unworthily. I would prefer therefor not to take it, but to have the funeral service performed when I am gone." After reading this note, the bishop said there was no hurry: the general would probably live for quite a spell yet. In reply, Grant sadly shook his head. "I am sure I am right for once ..." says...