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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rich & Poor. Of the 63 chapters in Magna Carta, two stand above all others. Said Chapter 40: "To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice." That statement opened the courts to rich and poor alike...
...High-Class Chinese? Last April Sigma Chi suspended its Stanford chapter after the local asked Negro Student Kenneth M. Washington, son of a Denver urologist, to join. Sigma Chi's National Grand Consul, Harry V. Wade, an Indianapolis insurance executive, who said in a letter to the Stanford chapter: "I personally would not resent having a high-class Chinese or Japanese boy admitted to Sigma Chi. But I know full well that his presence would be highly resented on the West Coast. Therefore I must submerge any personal feeling and refrain from proposing a Japanese or Chinese boy because...
...Chapter 12 of Magna Carta, for example, heralded the principle of "taxation through representation," indirectly inspired the American Revolution by providing that the King should levy no taxes except by "general consent" of the kingdom. Chapters 17 through 19 laid to rest the practice of meting out justice only through the King's traveling court, led to permanently based courts (Common Pleas, King's Bench, Chancery and Exchequer) set up to deal with everything from debts to divorces...
That the punishment should fit the crime was the bedrock principle of Magna Carta's Chapter 20, which declared that "a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offense," and required that no fine be so stiff "as to deprive him of his livelihood." Chapters 28 through 31 insisted that no government official might requisition food, troops, horses or carts without immediate payment: this is the seed of the "just compensation" clause in the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution...
...questions from a panel of critics that included: Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government; Albert M. Craig, associate professor of Japanese History; Thomas Skidmore, assistant professor of History; David Butler, president of the Harvard Graduate Political Club; Alan Gilbert '65, an officer of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of the May Second Movement; and Michael D. Lerner '65, a member of the CRIMSON editorial board...