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Student Council voted to charter AYD early last spring, pending usual faculty approval. President Wilbur K. Jordan, however, withheld faculty consent until he had on hand satisfactory proof of AYD's autonomy. Final documents were not exchanged until last May--and not until the status of all political groups and all club memberships total had been eagle-eyed by Student Council--and AYD became the last of a half-dozen new groups in Radcliffe Yard...
Minority Prophet. "R.C." is against unions (the Hoiles papers are all open shop), majority rule ("The majority can't give my consent to anything"), progressive, income taxes ("nothing but socialism"), public education ("a house of prostitution is voluntary, grade school is not") and aid to Europe ("Let 'em go to hell"). He considers both Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren too leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during...
...nine years, Rule 904-the local judges' answer to trial by headline-has gagged Baltimore papers in their coverage of crime. It forbids news of confessions, bars comments by anyone bearing on a trial, prohibits pictures of the accused without his consent...
...Geologist John Hodgdon Bradley. Texas, which would use 10,000 copies of the book, had objected to some of the nice things Bradley (an exmarine) had to say about Russia, when he wrote the book in 1945. The new World Geography for Texas, with the author's consent, would call Russia the "biggest" instead of the "greatest" nation in Europe, reduce the Soviet government's achievements from "mighty" to "considerable," downgrade Russia's claim to warm-water Baltic ports from "desperately" to "very much needed...
...Well,' I retorted, 'there are some that you don't want, aren't there?' But he would not consent...