Word: custodiat
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...QUIS CUSTODIAT ipsos custodes?" (Who guards the guardians?) was the Latin quotation of the month following the release of the Tower Commission report. Members of the commission used the quotation when talking about the lack of supervision which they said led to mismanagement and possibly to financial illegality in the Iran-Contra affair. "Quis custodiat ipsos custodes" may be equally apt in scrutinizing the financial operations of the Undergraduate Council...
...last an answer has been given to the question of the ancient poet; "Quis custodiat ipsos custodes?" The tutors are to watch over the undergraduates, but over the tutors watches the CRIMSON; with that mingled love and chastisement which we have been taught to consider characteristic only of a somewhat higher power. Last week the tutors were rebuked for their table-manners. Today they are the objects of a pity which, however sublime in its intent, may seem a trifle ridiculous when conferred without intelligence. Clearly, if any tutor be heard to cry, "what must I do to be saved...
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