Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge was halted last June when the City Council reversed its position and vetoed the Donnelly projects on the grounds that it would displace over 200 families. Mayor Crane and three other Council members were on the losing side of that 5-4 vote, after Councillor Pearl K. Wise had switched her earlier vote...
...many seniors are tempted to drop their thesis writing in favor of CLGS is that they perceive that the thesis is essentially nothing more than paperwork drudgery, enervating and mind-killing. Not all theses fit this description, but most do, so why Puritanically castigate a student who is wise enough to see that CLGS will give his mind more freedom and stimulation? Why not give him his freedom, instead of reacting with the pedantic hysteria that several departments have countered with by threatening to give "E" for an incomplete thesis...
...disturbing. As students in today's Gov 124 exam know, women probably should be entitled to equality before the law, voting privileges, special employment protection, and independent income, but complete lack of discrimination between the sexes in athletics seems to go too far. The Greeks, who were extremely wise in many respects, were quite rigid on this point. Any woman who even watched the Olympic Games was automatically executed. When the Romans reversed that edict, women apparently became great sports fans and were fond of spectacles such as gladiator fights and chariot races. The illusion of a tender...
Some changes in administrative procedure may accompany the appointment of a new director. One plan, which has much in its favor, is increased power for the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports. A more influential voice for the Faculty in athletic affairs might be a wise precaution, as well as a means for insuring that the department's actions are compatible with academic policy...
...sound intended. Much as she denies learning from other singers, her style is unmistakably Lena Home's, and she makes superb use of it. She closes her show with a slow version of Happy Days Are Here Again that lends the song an ambivalent sorrow only a very wise girl could dream...