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...President Roosevelt's methods aiming at recovery are of a type which should appeal to Harvard men and indeed to all college men, because they are founded on the strictest scientific principles," was the dictum of Edward A. Filene, Chairman of the Massachusetts State Recovery Board as given to a CRIMSON reporter in a recent interview. "It is under the control of scientific minds of high calibre and it is in the universities that this type of men is to be found...
...average undergraduate will not be surprised at the content of President Conant's dictum on the liquor situation in House dining halls. This much may be startling,--that the president has seen fit to address the undergraduate body directly on a matter of this sort; for in the past it has been the custom to hand over such rulings tacitly to underlings, to have them unobtrusively enforced, to make them "generally understood." But the prohibition itself is in the best of University Hall form. It is conservative, sober, and unexplained. To obviate confusion, the President has ruled that no undergraduate...
...wisdom, says, "Per me reges regnant et tyranni per me tenent terram," "through me kings rule and tyrants hold their power." Later, in the Sententiae of St. Isidore of Seville, iii 48, we find a long explanation of the sanctions of the tyrant's rule centering around a dictum of the Prophet Hosea "I shall give them a king in my wrath." Gregory the Great, in his commentary on the Book of Job, insists that the ruler, whatever be his weight or fineness, must not only be supported, but reverenced as a limb of God. More, in his Regulae Pastoralis...
...impatient, impulsive, explosive, restless, driving ... a photographic observer. . . . For Peek the world was a sharp black-&-white drawing. His decisions were as clear-cut as Legge's, but they somewhat offended; and all the more because they were right. . . . You resented the sting of Peek's commanding dictum . . . but he put you on your mettle...
...your pleasant review of my latest novel you make the statement that "In real life people never talk so wordily to the point." Are you sure of that? It is a modern and popular dictum, but I doubt it. I would like to make a dictaphone test. I admit that in crowded and busy places, New York, and so on, conversation is mostly reduced to a minimum, but even there it can be found, and, oddly enough, particularly among those whose novels are distinguished for shotgun brevity between characters. Investigate that point. As to the rest of the country, where...