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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answered Rotary's newly inducted President Herbert J. Taylor, an aluminum man from Chicago, "that Rotary Clubs the world over are pretty much the same, whether they are in Bangkok or Boise. Rotary provides something that is unique: a common bond between different peoples." And that, in the context of a dark, gloomy day for diplomacy, was something to slap a back about...
...context of the news from Geneva, Chiang hardly needed to describe the colossus that had grown up on the Chinese mainland since the Nationalist flight to Formosa 4½ years ago. But the Gimo did remind the world that his own war with the Chinese Reds has never ended.* He called the existence and swelling power of Red China a "calamity of mankind." How to deal with it? Chiang's solution is also Formosa's obsession: "Recovery of the mainland." For this, he pleaded for arms and moral support from the free world. "We have confidence...
Ultimate responsibility for the administrative policies of the University rests upon the corporation whose deliberative action is the constitutional context of our life and our work in this faculty. It was the corporation of Harvard University which, faced with attempts on the part of officials of government to dictate University policy in the crucial matte of the determination of the fitness of its teachers, resisted the pressures brought to bear upon it, defended the freedom of institutions of learning under the American system, reasserted the faith of the corporation in the integrity of the faculty and declared the right...
...softer alternatives were available this course would not be elected regardless of its good repute, and eventually everything would degenerate to a substantially lower common denominator. We feet, that our approach is practicable in a small, homogeneous college and have serious reservations about its practicability in a broader context...
...wish to make public my profound regret that anything said in that context should have been so misconstrued and abused that it would damage Dr. Peters and threaten his distinguished future career as a scientist...