Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed ordinance provides for enforcement of the law by a citizen-elected Rent Board, with one member from each of the City's 11 wards. The board would be empowered to review annually increases in landlords' operating expenses and taxes in order to prevent general rent increases from exceeding five per cent in any year...
...different life style, students tomorrow will insist on it. Many professors are convinced that next year's first-year class will be even harder to handle and satisfy than this year's bunch--although others have somehow convinced themselves that students who would disrupt than sanctity of the Law School with a study-in must be freakish and transient aberrations. The Committee majority report, although extremely tentative and minimally responsive to the student demands, makes clear that further reform is on the way. It recognizes that the proposals that will go to the faculty are only interim measures...
...reform. they have the right to expect faculty cooperation in making inevitable changes. But the report may face tough going in the faculty meeting tomorrow. Professor Archibald Cox has filled a minority report which warns that the Committee is talking "a wrong turn in the history of the Law School on a most serious occasion...
...Dean Bok wrote in the March-April Harvard Law School Bulletin, "Perhaps the greatest risk in Law schools, and in Universities as well, is that the atmosphere will get dangerously overheated.... If these dangers can be avoided, however, student discontents can provide a stimulus for a valuable reappraisal and improvement of legal education...
...life style the Law School has supported may be beyond saving, even by men of such enormous persuasive powers as the Law Faculty. But the Law School as a distinguished and productive institution is not in danger--unless the faculty decides to take it and themselves down with the ship of an outdated social structure...