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...reasons, including the rather remote possibility that he might have to filibuster for the Sugar Act, but chiefly because he felt that it was unwise of the liberals to give up a weapon that could save the day for them sometime. "To those of you who wish to alter radically the balance of power between a majority in the Senate and a minority, I say, You Sow tre Wind, for minorities change and the time will surely come when you will feel the hot breath of a righteous majority at the back of you own neck." To many liberals, this...
...Kincaid's Contes Français now reaches 1,209,000 subscribers to five daily newspapers, from the Toledo Blade to the Detroit News. The plot is Les Misérables, "adapted to a sixth-grader's interest," and the grammar is passably taxing. Cosette : "Je voudrais alter voir cette cathedrale, père!" Valjean: "Nous irons demain." Admittedly no linguist, Mrs. Kincaid checks each strip with a retired French professor, but so far she has not failed...
...extent that agitation for civil rights does not conflict with academic obligations, Mays encourages students to participate. The president urged undergraduates to engage in the sitins that swept Atlanta in 1960-61. "But," he recalls, "we were not prepared to alter the level of excellence expected from our students. Faculty members were asked to let students make up work missed, but time spent in jail was not considered an excuse for inadequate scholarship...
...time of Clarence Day's father, it was literally possible for a man to be born and to die in essentially the same world. To be sure, technological advances were made within one man's lifetime, but they were not generally frequent or far-reaching enough to drastically alter a person's way of life. Yet today, with the furious pace of scientific development, men must expect to leave a world significantly different from that which they entered...
Despite the probable imbalance in course enrollments, it appears unlikely that either Social Sciences 3 or Social Sciences 8 will raise their quotas. Mack Walker, chairman of Soc Sci 3, said that he did not anticipate any enlargement, which he felt might alter the present ratio of about 20 students to each section...