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...opposed to the resurgence of those ultranationalistic or anti-democratic forces which might threaten the peace of Europe...
...bold parliamentary thrust. The Fourth Republic's constitution provides automatic dissolution of the Assembly and new elections if two governments fall on votes of confidence within a period of 18 months. Thus if Bidault's cabinet went down, the succeeding regime would be able to threaten the deputies with dissolution every time they failed to come to heel in a confidence vote...
...regret the inaccurate and provocative headline (Bender Threatens Expulsion for Any Yale Game Vandals) which the CRIMSON used on its story about Yale game week-end rules which appeared Tuesday morning. The Dean's Office does not threaten students. It expects Harvard students to behave with a reasonable degree of intelligence and sense of responsibility to their college without being "threatened" like schoolboys, and we are rarley disappointed. We have had no trouble from misguided childish pranks by Harvard students at other colleges for many years and I see no reason to expect such trouble this year...
...brainstorm that has to be endured until it has blown over, then the second half of the 20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break forth from God's word and by the love which will not let us go, then 1950 will see a momentous turning point in Christian history...
...Farm. At Stanford, the defense of the college is turned over to the freshmen. Groups of these eager youths patrol the campus all night long. At any sign of danger, they ring the fire bell, the signal for the whole college to come to their aid. Both universities threaten expulsion for anyone caught defacing property, but the custom has grown of turning anyone caught over to the freshmen, instead of the University police. Solemn rites are then performed on the victim, his hair is shaved off, and a bright red "S" painted on his pate...