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What we have instead is a very badly framed gratuitously unpleasant and basically confused pronouncement. The Faculty alone has no business intervening in the status of instructors, if they are henceforth appointed outside its ranks and without regard to its initiative. NO more has it any business legislating about scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Ford's Letter to Pusey on ROTC | 4/14/1969 | See Source »

Suspicion About Mediation. Stepping into the muggy heat at Ikeja airport, Wilson avoided suggestions that he had come to mediate. One reason was his awareness of a persistent local suspicion that he had come to pressure the federal military government to make concessions to the Biafrans. Major General Yakubu Gowon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Twin Stalemates | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

Injuries to team members so far have been slight, but this gentlemen's sport has had its share of fatalities. When a thousand pounds of horse and rider are accelerating at ten feet per second per second, contact tends to be unpleasant.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Polo Is Reborn With Myopia Club's Aid | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Grades do not provide an incentive to work throughout much of the first year. The prize of good grades at the end of the year is probably too remote for many law students to use as a motivation to full application throughout the school year. Gearing their entire first year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Trouble With Grades | 3/1/1969 | See Source »

Though the ridiculously low budget was the worst feature of last summer's program, it was also the best. You knew that everyone else was working under similarly unpleasant conditions, and that no one had more free weekends; a comraderie developed that would sound corny if, in fact, it had...

Author: By James Q. Wilson, | Title: FOCUS in Perspective: Between Shadow and Act | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

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