Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arguments on the Dollarway case and similar cases. It is faced with the uncomfortable alternatives of denying school boards the right to approach desegregation in their own fashion (The NAACP is currently trying to force a North Carolina town into producing an overall desegregation plan), or allowing a skillful legal device to sabotage the spirit of its 1954 ruling. The question of whether assignment by race is justified when accompanied by the right to appeal for transfer is central in the case. If it is justified, Southern schools will have their "pioneers," Jackie Robinsons of education, indefinitely and the Federal...
President Eisenhower's trip to Russia, originally scheduled for next month, has caused cancellation of elaborate dedication ceremonies for the new International Legal Studies Center. Although the President has rescheduled his trip for this spring, it is unlikely that he will come to Cambridge for ceremonies...
Quincy decided to enter law and apprenticed himself to Mr. William Tudor for training, not only in legal niceties but also in political maneuvers. Josiah was born and remained a Federalist, although the party collapsed 40 years before his death, and despite his relatively late start in politics, he advanced rapidly...
...listen less to the suggestions of indolence, and so quicken that spirit of intellectual improvement to which I devote my life." In addition to copious readings in the classics, he spent a great deal of time learning French, studying botany, keeping an extensive diary, and attending to affairs legal and political...
...starting legal proceedings, Quincy again revealed his ignorance of the most elementary psychology. His Puritanical pigheadedness prevented him from taking more sensible action; any personal popularity he held among the students promptly vanished. The College suffered too, as Harvard's enrollment dropped nearly 50 per cent...