Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legend had little to say about his tenderness to his narrow circle of friends, his unfailing generosity, his clear legal perception, his unerring eye and ear for the false, the unessential. Least-recognized was his long-time alertness for the preservation of civil liberties...
...these reasons the Corporation should not have many quains about indulging in a little legal shenanigans to extricate the Council from its unhappy position. By shutting its eyes to the letter of the bequest, as it has unwittingly done for so many years, the Corporation can perpetuate the spirit of the Coolidge grant, and encourage the continued life and growth of debating. By insisting on the exact words of the will, the Corporation will only kill that which the bequest aimed to promote...
Died. Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow, 80, learned, rugged president-emeritus of Johns Hopkins University (president 1914-29), after long illness; in Baltimore, Md. For two years Dr. Goodnow was legal and constitutional adviser to the first government of the Chinese Republic...
Although the decisions of the Corporation are technically subject to the approval of the Board of Overseers, an annually elected body of alumni, since 1689 the Board has almost never wielded its legal vote power...
...Placing American ships under the flag of Panama is perfectly legal, but immoral, unethical, and unfair. It renders laughable our efforts at neutrality," Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate professor of Government, said yesterday...