Word: arguments
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...fall. More important was a lot of routine political legwork--testimony before the CEP, interviews with Dean Ford and other CEP members. By the time the proposal to allow every student to take one of his courses ungraded came to a vote in November there was no argument. The CEP approved it unanimously and after a few weeks to arrange implementation, the Faculty passed...
...questioning extends well beyond the Johnson Administration's rationale for the Viet Nam war to the inevitability of capitalism and the viability of present political systems. The graduates insist that there is a need to fight injustices at home, not to "shoot peasants in Viet Nam"?an argument, of course, that is not the exclusive insight of youth. Some students have thus concluded that going to prison as a protest against the draft is a sacrificial act by which one "votes" his own concept of duty to country. Last week more than 100 Woodrow Wilson Fellows from across...
...throw a bottle out a high window without concern for hurting someone or fear of being spotted among a huge grid of windows. It is a feeling that leaves a greater sense of detachment from the administration. As an emotional act, sitting-in the president's office brought the argument of the demonstrators into an understandable reality. Before, their debate was not so much arrogant as unknown...
...development into a first-rank center of learning; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Crusty, often controversial in matters not relating to education, Marsh was a fervent advocate of Prohibition, believed that because of TV "we are destined to have a nation of morons." There was no argument about the near miracle he worked at B.U., where he took a moldering collection of brownstones for 9,600 students in 1926 and built a multiversity that today boasts 23,000 students and 13 graduate schools...
More importantly, the disguising of the police can only serve to create mistrust and suspicion between people. And this cannot be justified solely by the argument that plainclothesman help to catch lawbreakers. Law enforcement must always serve the law itself, and the ultimate purpose of the law should be to promote security and cohesion between all members of society...