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Although consideration of plans for converting buildings in the College Yard into Houses has been dropped, members of the Administration are still discussing the possibility of introducing aspects of the House system into the freshman year "within the framework of the freshman class," Dean Bundy said...
...principal offense of the English newspapers in the eyes of the Nationalists is their relentless exposure of the unsavory facts of apartheid rule. They are conservative when compared with newspapers here and in England; their policies are directed toward achieving reforms within constitutional framework; they criticize all forms of violence, whether it is perpetrated by the White authorities or by the African demonstrators...
Seen in such a framework as we have tried to describe, the gigantic political movements of May and June were one more instance of the Japanese people's effort to gain political expression. Those for and against the government both exhibited eagerness to defend "parliamentarianism," but their attitudes were often its very opposite. At that time we hoped that the people had sufficiently grappled with the problem of implementing parliamentary democracy in a society which had lacked a tradition of the logical articulation of ideas. We hoped that amid the confusion and chaos of the period, the principles of parliamentarianism...
...program is encouraging partly because it began without faculty legislation, working within the framework of the existing departments. A technique of drawing on a variety of fields to study individual problems rather than attempting to master formal academic disciplines seems even more appealing when it comes from within the departments. In itself, the combined tutorial testifies that the departments are both able and willing to broaden their academic programs...
...have simplified his thesis almost to grotesqueness, but my point is that although this framework supplies clever headings under which descriptions of now mature societies can certainly be placed, it assumes too bravely that the newer nations will follow the same patterns...