Word: decorums
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...committee's action stems from a proposal by Brent Dechene '70, who argued that bare feet are not a health hazard and do not affect the decorum of the University...
...understandable. For 13 days the defendants directed streams of verbal vitriol at the bench and the prosecuting attorneys, bringing courtroom proceedings to a virtual standstill. Murtagh's solution: let the Panthers cool off in jail until they agree in writing to follow the traditional rules of courtroom decorum. He may have a long wait...
...Wall Street these days, it is the focus of intense interest. The notion has taken root that corporate profit reports are not always what they seem, and investors' suspicions have been nourished by the accounting profession itself, a staid club that is usually a model of gray-flannel decorum...
Last spring the Law School was debating the issue of grade reform for first year students with a decorum that would be unimaginable for undergraduates. Students drew up lengthy, well-reasoned critiques of the grading system worked on committees, held open meetings, and, at the height of their militancy resorted to a "study-in" in the library. They won only a partial victory but even then it was becoming apparent to faculty that students were not enchanted by the traditional order the faculty felt such a strong allegiance to. And the faculty does feel an allegiance to the Law School...
...rise of dissent ? or rather, the decline of Confucian decorum ? has stunned Japan's elders. A measure of their confusion is the advice on handling students contained in a manual circulated among the faculty of Tokyo's Chuo University. They should be treated "as foreigners," the handbook ad vises, "with all their different sets of modes, customs and thoughts." Still, older Japanese take comfort from the fact that so far most of the young ka-minari (thunderbolts) have dutifully taken "their proper place" in the ser vice of company and country after graduation. A few businessmen...