Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled, or Baked Meates or Pyres of any kind shall be made by any Commencer." They further stipulated that "Distilled Lyquours" were to be seized by tutors. What these gentlemen did with the confiscated property is not told, but an entry in the diary...
Those of us who live many hundreds of miles from Cambridge are delighted to learn that the federal inspector has issued an edict fixing the rate for meals on a railway dining car at $1.25 a plate. Hence the moderately wealthy Californian will no longer need to embark on a four-days' fast when he comes east to college. We are glad for his sake. And even those of us who take but short trips are interested in the new regulation, especially in the particular clause that stipulates that the food shall "be worth the price." This introduces an entirely...
...pages of the Advocate the right of the students to publish a paper which should express undergraduate opinion, even when that opinion differed radically from the views of the Faculty, was strongly and successfully asserted. The counsel of the more liberal members of the Faculty prevailed; the edict of expulsion was not enforced; and the Advocate was not suppressed. The founding of the Advocate is a story worth repetition because the event it describes established the freedom of the press at the University...
...western universities there is almost complete self-government. But Harvard is by no means ready for so radical a change. Such a system can be successful only when the student body actually feels the need of it. It cannot be brought about as the result of an edict from University 4. Present tendencies are, however, in the direction of increasing participation by undergraduates in the councils of the University...
...Charles Sumner,--a great political leader, an eminent statesman, and an eloquent public speaker. He was also "the Senator with a conscience." He was a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and his influence upon the acts of the great President was seen most strikingly in Lincoln's Edict of Emancipation in 1862 and his clear and strong reference to the sin of American slavery in his Inaugural Address...