Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human tendency to take the full number allowed. The Dean's office in the College has, however, avoided an arbitrary standard and has treated each case on its individual merits, allowing great discretion to undergraduates in good standing. Only in flagrant instances has disciplinary action been taken. The new rule for Seniors is therefore not a radical innovation, but only a slight extension of a policy which is already being practised...
...obvious, however, that much depends upon the manner in which Seniors receive this extension of privilege. The results of the experiment will be watched closely by the Faculty, and if an orgy of promiscuous cutting follows the inauguration of the rule, the experiment will be adjudged a failure. A reaction would then inevitably follow which would retard for years the progress of this liberal movement in which Harvard may take a just pride in being the leader...
...little Jimmy Walker, who all his life has lived in only two houses down in Greenwich Village, came out of the New York Senate to rule over New York City, its Italians, its Irish, its Germans, its Jews, its telephones, its gourmands and many more. "Happy New Year," said the city; "1926 will be different from...
...Foster is to the 20th (particularly within the radius of Manhattan newspapers). He was 40 years old when he became "card editor of the New York Sun. Soon famed as authority on auction bridge, his production of literature on cards within the last 20 years has been enormous. The "rule of eleven owes its origin to him. Men by the thousand and women by the ten thousand have applied themselves to study of his works with an intensity which would have created a race of theologians had it been devoted to biblical lore. Perhaps the daily bridge women have been...
...Toronto hockey team, with six seasoned veterans and an imposing record of victories behind them, will rule favorite tonight at the opening face-off against the University skaters in the Boston Arena at 8.15 o'clock...