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Urging the need to uphold the "principle of authority," the Government closed the school. But 900 students barricaded themselves in the grey stucco building, stayed there even when the Government cut off light, food, water. Outside, armed police, on horse and afoot, laid siege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Student Days | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...shall uphold the ruling agreed upon by the Masters of the Houses which are using the Lowell dining hall this summer," Pechet said. "Rather than alter their decision that coats must be worn at all times, we shall concentrate on making the hall cooler by the installation of fans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unchanged and Wet, Lowell Retains Coats; Tutor Tries Out Fans | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

...Philip Bahn '49, Robert M. Beren '47, and Roy G. Clouse '50, who will uphold the affirmative, face a Yale trio in Lowell House Junior Common Room at 8 o'clock, while Hugh M. Hill '48, Edwin J. Jacob '47, and Howard L. Swartzman '47 will travel down to New Jersey to defend the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Aim for Big Three Crown In Traditional H-Y-P Clash Tonight | 4/23/1947 | See Source »

...students. Instead of arbitrarily outlawing the expenditure of any money for election purposes, the Council might well institute a basic maximum of five dollars per candidate. By allowing aspirants the means to publish mimeographed statements of intent, the Committee can maintain its policy of forbidding unfair ballyhoo and still uphold one of the most vital factors for the continued renaissance of student activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tippecanoe and Ruppert's Too | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

...vulgarize mankind. They can endanger the peace of the world; they can do so accidentally, in a fit of absence of mind. They can play up or down the news and its significance, foster and feed emotions, create complacent fictions and blind spots, misuse the great words, and uphold empty slogans. [They] . . . can spread lies faster and farther than our forefathers dreamed. . . ." They can, said the Commission, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Let Freedom Ring True | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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