Word: election
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...adequate representation of students to the administration as possible, so that steps may be taken to improve the college and the curriculum with the student in mind. It includes the commitment of those who choose to be student-leaders to remain faithful to the wishes of those who elect them, to place their leader selves in subordination to their student selves, thus to immerse themselves more thoroughly in the purposes and moral standards of an academic community. It includes further a commitment on the part of the Faculty toward the scholastic and moral education of the individual undergraduate...
State minimum requirements cannot insure that able students are "sufficiently encouraged to elect a broad, stiff program of academic subjects," he pointed out, adding that "At the local level, however, a good deal can be done by counselors and by the development of the proper spirit in the school and the community by the principal and superintendent...
Northern Rhodesia. In a more hopeful mood, Northern Rhodesians trooped to the polls last week to elect new members of the legislative council, under new provisions that increased the number of registered black voters from an absurd four in 1954 to 7,617 (out of a total black population of 2,500,000). Once again the basic issue was whether there should be a Federation at all. Burly Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, who in the face of increasingly insistent African demands has grown less and less keen about any actual partnership, plunged into the territorial campaign with...
Despite Ben-Gurion's personal popularity, people were beginning to grumble, and last week they could be heard. The occasion was the election of a new Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament). First indication of trouble to Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai (Labor) Party was the refusal of popular ex-Premier Moshe Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish...
Last month in Istanbul, Athenagoras backed James for election to the New York see against stiff opposition. The battle arena: Greek Orthodoxy's twelve-seat Holy Synod, composed of 16 metropolitans (on a revolving basis), whose actual or titular sees are in Turkey. To elect James, Athenagoras needed a minimum of six votes plus his own tiebreaker, but could muster only five. The majority considered strongly anti-Communist Archbishop James too "progressive." When four anti-James metropolitans took their case outside the synod, leaking word to Turkish newspapers that James was "an enemy of the Turkish people," Athenagoras promptly...