Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, many of us love it this way. To go on smoking unmolested is magnificent. And to have forced this absurdity upon the law and the city is beautiful...
Last Sunday there were signs posted all around the Common reading: "Walking, Standing, Or Sitting Upon The Grass Is Prohibited. Revised ordinance, chapter 29, section 85." But people--hundreds of them--were walking, standing, or sitting upon the grass. No one was arrested, no one reprimanded...
Tired of that, they set upon a police station wagon, banging on the top and nearly rocking it over. An airport limousine got the same treatment and so did one of the motorized carriages that runs around the Common. Then, finally, the cops showed up. They conspicuously stayed away from the grass where people were still clustered around smoking. All they did was clear Beacon St. and the little road inside the Common fence. Last Sunday there was none of this kind of trouble, although one group of about 100 marched on the Western Ave. Jail near Central Sq., where...
...professor and the law student from the derogation of applied work that is so ubiquitous in the academic departments of the graduate school. The graduate departments tend to define their problems from within, even though they may get their funds from without, and tend to look down upon students with too direct a moral imperative, as well as too roving an intellectual eye. Thus in principle the law schools could become even more than at present locales for training in applied social science. Both the pressure and the possibility to move in this direction will come, I suggest, in part...
Besides marijuana, discussion also cen- tered upon LSD, narcotics, sedatives and hypnotics, energizers, tranquillizers, and non-regulated medications such as Nodoz, Ropertussin (a cough medicine which supposedly produces a "high"), and non-prescription sleeping pills...