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Flexibility, providing for the initiative of the individual student, is the dominant word of the hour. No longer do hour exams, mid-year probation, and attendance at classes restrict upperclassmen. No longer will specified distribution requirements restrain the ambitious Freshman. No longer will the elementary language requirement force unwilling students into German...
...carry out its rules which call for suspension of any member unable to meet his obligations. When President Boylan of the Board of Trade summoned the Board's directors to a secret meeting, they found Mr. Rosenbaum one jump ahead of them. He had secured an injunction to restrain the Board from suspending his company on the grounds that suspension would force a reckless liquidation of the company's holdings, knock the bottom out of the grain market. But Mr. Boylan had one ace left. If the court would not let him suspend Rosenbaum Grain, at least...
...dignified. They saw nothing ludicrous in an order issued last week to Santiago police on duty in the public parks. Pursuant to this order polite constables began discreetly approaching amorous couples on park benches and behind bushes, pressing upon them cards neatly imprinted: ''You are requested to restrain your ardors...
...William Irwin Grubb of Alabama, the Government has no right to engage in the power business except to dispose of a surplus incidental to the exercise of some other Constitutional function. So said the wiry little septuagenarian jurist last autumn during the legal preliminaries of an injunction suit to restrain the Tennessee Valley Authority from buying private Alabama power properties (TIME...
...John said he had received from German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch "solemn assurance" that no invasion of the Saar by Germany will occur. Expressing his "satisfaction," Sir John then announced that "there has never been any question" of using British troops to restrain the invasion in question...