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Regrettably, modern warfare does not allow for a policy of pure defense. To be valid, any "line" theory must take into account activities on the other side of the line, such as pre-invasion troop concentrations and other threatening actions. With this in mind, the President has suggested that action might be taken if the Communists attempt to seize the key islands of Quemoy and Matsu. But he has not made this policy explicit, and to a certain extent has opened United States planning to the very charges of vagueness which it is now trying to avoid. For this reason...
Your primary criticism, that Sweet Briar's services in the fields of "advice and family living" and academic activities are useless and restraining and therefore an unnecessary expense, would scarcely some valid to the mature mind familiar with the situation in Franco...
...South of 50 years ago." The U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus, but a dissenting opinion-written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes with Charles Evans Hughes concurring-caused a sensation. "It is our duty," said the minority justices, "to declare lynch law as little valid when practiced by a regularly drawn jury as when administered by one elected by a mob intent on death...
Each argument parried, Library administrators are left with no excuse but finances if they are to turn down a request for longer hours once more. They have been forced to admit that the students' complaints are valid and their reasons good. Ultimately, then, the decision will be made by the pocketbook, despite the reasons that the administration may give a few weeks from...
...most valid objection to requiring lower or upper level Natural Science courses for science majors is not that the courses are unnecessary, but that they are unsophisticated. Really worthwhile instruction must be in small discussion groups, where the subjects could be tailored to the interests and preparation of the students. A typical group might discuss, for example, how science has at times succumbed to social pressures, yet has still affected the philosophical assumptions of the world around it. But if separate groups were formed for students of biology and physics, it is important that they should not be afraid...