Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortunately, Cornell has graduated most of its varsity boat, including Van Wrangle, Morehouse, and Collier, three of the East's best Oras. But the performance of Cornell's Freshmen here a year ago indicates that there are plenty of capable young men to carry...
...board was not only impartial, but two of its members were experienced lawyers. Under the competent hand of Dean Griswold, the irrelevancies and absurdities of Dwyer's case were properly tossed out. As the hearing progressed, the position of the prosecution withered. Nothing remained at the conclusion. Dr. Van Waters was cleared; her accusers were...
...Griswold Commission, of course, was not primarily concerned with McDowell and Dwyer. But the Commission properly noted that McDowell had exceeded his authority in some of his orders to Dr. Van Waters last summer, and that Dwyer's 1948 "investigation" of Framingham "did not create a favorable impression"-- which seems to be an officially polite expression for a truly disgraceful episode...
...positive dividend seems to be shaping up out of the recent unpleasantness--the revision of state penal laws along the lines of Dr. Van Waters' progressive techniques in rehabilitation work. The present Commissioner is opposed to such techniques and would be opposed to any forward revision in the laws. But the state legislature passes legislation, not public officials; and if future penal codes are not to McDowell's liking, he will have a face-saving reason for resigning...
That would be something few people would be sorry to see. McDowell and his deputy presented a picture of inept and narrow public disservice that grew with each day of the hearing. The case they sought to make against Dr. Van Waters has boomeranged upon them disastrously, and will go down in history as a defeat for mangy and unprincipled politicking and a victory for progressive social welfare...