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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That crusade began for Charles Rhyne last summer when he was installed in the A.B.A.'s presidency at the 80th anniversary convention in London. On Runnymede's historic meadow, Rhyne dedicated the A.B.A.'s monument in commemoration of the sealing of Magna Carta. In Westminster Hall, Chief Justice Earl Warren and then Attorney General Herbert Brownell of the U.S., Lord Kilmuir, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and the lawyers of two continents joined in a session that was, in itself, one of the great landmarks in the history of law (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Work of Justice | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...Economic Magna Carta. But there are far more positive ways by which the rule of law can be extended to world affairs. Much of the turmoil in modern international relations comes from the fact that new nations, arising from the ruins of colonialism, require capital for their national development, but are afraid of the political dependence that goes with it. Lawyers ask: Why not an international agreement that sets down the political rights and the economic responsibilities of the borrowers? Last year, speaking at the International Industrial Development Conference in San Francisco. German Banker Hermann Abs issued a ringing call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Work of Justice | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Nevertheless, it is hoped that other departments will follow the example of History and Literature. If the Departments have the courage of their cum-magna-summa convictions, and if the professor wants to teach his students not hide from them, then the secrecy surrounding senior honors theses should be removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hidden Persuaders | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

South Pacific (Magna Releasing Corp. and 20th Century-Fox), as a Broadway musical, had so much vim and vinegar that it would be almost impossible to make a bad movie out of it-but the moviemakers appear to have tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...report, dealing with graduates of the last five classes, finds that the percentage of students receiving "summacum laude" or "magna cum laude" with highest honors degrees was 6.9 in the Natural Sciences, 3.6 in the Humanities, and 1.3 in the Social Sciences. "Magna cum laude" with highest honors is awarded when a Department recommends highest honors, but the Faculty does not accept the recommendation...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Soc. Sci. Field Awards Fewest Summa Degrees | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

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