Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After losing that case, he appealed the case through the judicial system until he finally argued before the Supreme Court. Again, he lost, after the Court cited government documents proving the "danger" of Japanese-American espionage...
...only 40 years later, when Hirabayashi's friend Peter Irons discovered evidence proving the government had fabricated evidence and lied to the Supreme Court, that Hirabayashi appealed his case yet again, winning this time in Hirabayashiv. United States...
Last semester's Historical Studies B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice" granted its teaching fellows a great deal of power-in fact, too much power. in addition to steering section discussions and setting paper guidelines, each section leader was given the authority to determine his own method of grading first-year students. While some section leaders were willing to bend over backward to help the new students, others graded first-years as stringently as seniors. And though both options have merit, this inconsistency across sections of the same class should cease. First-year grading should...
Last semester, "Warren Court" Professor Morton J. Horwitz often lectured about our inalienable, constitutional rights which are immune from the intrusion of state governments. The federal Bill of Rights can not be applied differently in different locales. But even as he preached this gospel, his course's sections, our metaphorical states, employed varying grading standards and thereby denied us equal treatment. Perhaps the next time the course is offered, he-and professors in all large classes-will take his wise advice. Jordana R. Lewis, a Crimson editor, is a first-year living in Thayer Hall...
...whole range of problems that emerge are such that people...cannot bring legal action that they finance themselves," he said, explaining that the possible winnings would be less than the court expenses...