Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the tutorial schools. There can be no mistaking the intention back of the rule which the Faculty passed yesterday making a student who patronizes a tutoring school "liable to disciplinary action." The half-way reforms and the moral disapproval hastily improvised last year have been reinforced by a vote recognizing that the value of a Harvard degree is impaired by the existence of shops where money substitutes for the cost of intellectual labor...
...rule is to go into effect immediately, and this raises the question of how it is to be enforced. The Faculty has not yet stated the means it intends to use in making the vote effective, but the precedents of Harvard's liberal policy toward its students make it probable that the cruder forms of police power will not be used. Yard cops will not be stationed at cram parlor doors to seize the Bursar's cards of men who, from choice or apparent necessity, continue to violate the will of the Faculty. It is very likely that tell-tale...
...ability to take blame and get away with it. In the 50 minutes that he spoke he demonstrated also that he was the one man present who commanded the respect of a vast majority of the House. As Big Ben struck the hour of n, he called for a vote of confidence on the question of adjournment or further debate...
...time in the last war were we in greater peril than now. I urge the Members most strongly to deal with these matters not in a precipitate vote . . . but in a grave manner, in due time, and in accordance with the dignity of Parliament...
...what was in store for Britain: "If you ask what is our policy, it is to wage war by sea, land and air with all our might," said Winston Churchill. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." The House gave him a 381-to-0 vote of confidence and Neville Chamberlain smiled a tight-lipped smile...