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...Guide claims to present an accurate picture of student opinion. This claim is not alone explicit; it is implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions...
Idaho's Senator Taylor was up for renomination. The people of Idaho had heard his songs before. This time they were more interested in his political tune -and whether he had changed it since 1948. Glen wasn't explicit on that point. By running for Vice President under the dark pink banner of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, he conceded that he had made a "poor political move"-but he was "not apologizing" for it, nor would he now criticize the U.S.S.R. because "I don't want to say anything that might stir up another...
...regulations of the U.S. Navy and of the U.S. Naval Academy reflect decades of service wisdom in facing up to all sorts of military situations. But the regulations have nothing explicit to say about what to do when a starling comes to roost on a second classman's shoulder in the middle of June Week ceremonies at Annapolis (see cut). That left the matter up to Drummer Peter F. H. Hughes of Chicago to work out for himself...
...before, U.S. reporters in Belgrade had cabled more explicit views by Comrade Popovich. In Tito's theoretical organ Kommunist, a few weeks before setting off for Washington, he had written a long piece about the irreconcilable struggle in the world between Marxists and U.S.-led "imperialists." Excerpts...
...Therefore, in order to make clear exactly what the University policy was, and so protect the student organizations from arbitrary, unjust, and inconsistent controls, and from ad hoc decisions, Dean Watson undertook to state this hitherto unwritten policy in explicit and definite form. Dean Watson issued a report to the Council for consideration and criticism. Last year, a Council sub-committee revised these rules. Just recently, copies of this tentative draft were issued by that sub-committee to the recognized undergraduate organizations...