Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing the Witchcraft...
...Time also concerned itself with education, concentrating on Eton, Oxford and the fashionable philosophy of the day, sport (the decline of the British racehorse) and theater (an account of a rehearsal at the Comédie Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless and coarse...
First, Radcliffe has the "right" to deal with its students as it sees fit, short of beating them, libeling them, stealing from them, and so on. President Jordan could proclaim that any girl who didn't chant "I shall protect Radcliffe's good, name" for a half-hour every day would be expelled, and he would have a perfect "right" to do so. No contract, no charter, no law forbids such action. Similarly it can threaten Miss Labenow with expulsion for just about any reason it chooses. Or it can insist that its student reporters are reporters only...
...beyond question. In the present case, the inaccuracy, unreliability, and lack of ethics of the CRIMSON and Miss Labenow could be ten times what even the worst accusations have claimed, and Radcliffe's actions would still classify as censorship. There are cases when censorship is necessary. Censorship that will protect the safety of the nation's armed forces is clearly such a case. Radcliffe feels that the protection of its own good name against what it claims to be inaccurate reporting is also such a case...
Columbia University has named nine of its officials to a committee to protect life and property on Morningside Heights in the event of an atom bomb attack...