Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...matter how pure or kindly the motive," Connecticut Judge John A. Cornell instructed the jury, "the law does not justify one person's taking the life of another to save that other from suffering . . . even if the killing be done at the request of the person killed." In short, said the judge, there is no such thing as legal mercy killing...
...make their own diagnosis of the nation's ills. In general they agreed that many U.S. citizens were not getting the best of medical care, but they argued that it was not because of inability to pay for it. The Brookings Institution, in a report-made at the request of a Senate committee in the 80th Congress, concluded that families with incomes of $2,000 or more (at 1941 price levels) should have no difficulty in paying for medical care if they cut down on luxuries (automobiles, liquor, tobacco, recreation) and savings...
John W. Kerr '52 and Loretta Valtz '52 temporary chairmen, will bring the request for the dual charter to their respective Councils. Twenty 'Cliffe girls, the requisite membership for an Annex undergraduate organization, have signed up for the new group. Twelve Harvard men were present at the meeting...
Undergraduate tutors at Phillips Brooks House are accustomed to unusual requests for aid, but one that they received recently may be hard to grant. The request was for a student who speaks Dutch well; the tutee knows neither French nor German...
...closing that I have no fault to find with the many honorable men who constitute the majority of the 1950 Permanent Class Committee. My foremost complaint is against rather the shameful manner in which the Committee was elected. (Name withheld by request...