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...contrary, say Conant's critics, colleges are not "responsible" enough to uphold high standards on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teachers: Conant v. the Establishment | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Dana S. Hanson, executive secretary of the Cambridge Civic Association, predicted last night that the Senate will again uphold Peabody's veto unless a substantial number of absentee Senators join the bill's supporters...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: State Senate Upholds Peabody Veto Of Bill to Allow November PR Vote | 2/18/1964 | See Source »

Kilpatrick said that the triumph of integration would result in the loss of those "race values"--the separation of powers and the rights of property, which he called the "first of human rights." "I uphold the rights of a Negro to buy a house from my neighbor," he said, "but I uphold mine to sell my house to whom I please...

Author: By Ellen Lake, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Southerner Charges Negroes Inferior | 2/10/1964 | See Source »

...decreed that all those with more than two years' service should be retained as firemen or given other jobs. This gesture did not satisfy the two union members on the seven-man board, and they plan to contest the decision in the U.S. courts. Even if the courts uphold the board, the decision is binding for only two years. In addition, union negotiations for wage hikes, scheduled to start this week, have a Feb. 24 deadline. Unless the railroads give in some on the issue of work crews, says Firemen's Union Chief H. E. Gilbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Profits & Perils | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...Gardner died 21 years after this ceremony--but her cult has grown. The museum guards uphold it. Of course, they are so old that I suspect that Mrs. Gardner selected and stationed them as carefully as she planned the inanimate objects of the museum. When these guards speak of "her," Mrs. Gardner seems very alive...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: Mrs. Gardner's Museum Graces the Fenway | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

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