Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Three to Make Ready. The first hint of tough action against the Chinese came during Harry Truman's jampacked press conference at midweek. The President began by reading a prepared statement. It condemned the Communists and warned that the U.N. forces might suffer reverses, but "have no intention of abandoning their mission in Korea...
...December 7, the Dean's Office announced that the two-woman rule had been repealed, effective the next January 4. It was abolished because "the students felt that such a rule was very inconvenient, and that it did not accomplish the purpose intended," read the official statement from University Hall. The guest book was retained in the revised plans, and so was requirement of master's permission. For the next five years, all was quiet, relatively, on the parietal front...
Perhaps, however, such conclusions would be unfair and unrepresentative. Just as much so as the statement, "Yale, according to its students of more than average insight, is a trade school for success." The Yale students concerned may have had insight a-plenty, but that quality is not to be discerned in their interviewers. Garrison McC. Ellis Chairman, Yale Dally News...
Specifically, the article states that "many of the old executives were purged in the annual January elections." It goes on to discuss charges made against last year's committee with respect to "extra-legal and improper administration" etc. The first statement concerning the "purge" has no truth at all. Of the six "purged" officers last January, three were seniors and not eligible for re-election, one declined renomination, and the other two were re-elected...
...order to avoid a misunderstanding of my statement published in the Harvard CRIMSON Wednesday, November 1, I wish to say that although I do not think that the so-called loyalty oath of the University of California is so injurious to the independence of science as many of my friends among the non-signers do, I feel the greatest admiration for those who, for the maintenance of an important principle which they considered endangered, gave up their positions; and I sincerely hope that other universities will appoint them as soon as possible. Hans Kelsen, Visiting Lecturer on Government