Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over a year later, however, Columbia's administration took the powers back again. A few weeks ago, the student council approved a petition of the Marxist Group for a speech by Gus Hall, one of 11 Communists on trial for violating the Smith...
Spitzer, in the letter, took issue with an article in the News which attacked the Lysenko theory of genetics. The point of the Spitzer letter was that the Lysenko theory had not been given a scientific trial and that "in the interests of scientific objectivity" it would be wise to read the theory from source material rather than from condensed translations. Spitzer gave the impression that there was some evidence in support of the Russian theory, which is held in low repute by almost all western geneticists...
Last February, a group of Olivet students and teachers took Father Shipherd's precepts to heart, split off from Olivet College, and announced their intention to form a college of their own, to be known as Shipherd College...
...Board gave no official reasons for the dismissal, which took place without a hearing and without faculty consultation. But such observers as Time Magazine claimed they saw the unofficial reason. The Akeleys fitted into the supposed Olivet pattern of "queerness," which Ashby was out to correct. Akeley was highly respected among students and faculty, but he did were a heret, and he did hold what some Trustees called "liberal views...
...charged that his political affiliation was responsible for the failure of the administration to renew his contract. This was denied by John W. Long, Lycoming's president. Over 100 students out of a student body of 900 signed a petition asking for Athearn's reinstatement, but the authorities took no action...