Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...socialism, not because the men concerned have sought to create names for themselves by sensational tactics, but because to most enlightened people it appeared that justice in Massachusetts was in grave danger of miscarrying. The courts, they thought, had perhaps been honest, had adhered to every rule and precedent, had obeyed the letter of the law to the end of the alphabet. But the very safeguards of the individual in this case, it seemed, had rendered justice in the broad sense impossible. Turning from the impotent courts, the advocates of Massachusetts justice--that part of them who thought...
...first report of the Committee on Relations with the Alumni shows that a consistent effort has been made to keep the forty-thousand odd graduates of the University not only aware but well informed of the flux of life in and about the Yard. Undergraduates as a rule have no conception of the vast bulk of public opinion which lies in the hands of the alumni; what happens in Cambridge today may result in headlines in the daily press tomorrow, but the most far-reaching consequences will always depend in large measure on the graduates spread over the world...
...Klein was promoted in 1921 to his present post: Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. There over 300 reports reach him daily; and out to U. S. businessmen go a daily average of 3,000 replies to economic questions. Says Dr. Klein: "We have a rule that a reply?not necessarily complete?must go to every inquirer within 48 hours of the time his question reaches us. . . . The most perishable commodity on earth is commercial intelligence. . . . The concealment of facts is dangerous. If the truth is shocking, the more reason why we should have the truth...
...what they wanted. Their reply was that they wanted nothing. "This is not just an isolated case; I could cite numerous others. The general mass of Chinese students, as yet at least, are unaffected by Bolshevism, and anti-foreignism amongst the Chinese people is the exception rather than the rule. "I turned over the chair of mathematics at Boone to a Chinese gentleman who is a graduate of Columbia. He furthermore took a postgraduate course at Princeton. He is anti-Bolshevik, and, while, essentially pro-Chinese, he is nevertheless strongly pro-America. I fully expect that he will carry...
...without any spirit of pomp or pride that membership in Harvard University is an end in itself and all the component parts of the community yield to its superiority. It has become almost a can't phrase to refer to Harvard as the exception which proves the rule: the rule being that fraternal organizations are essential to the success of any modern college or university...