Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While the farm vote rules some states, because 51% of the voters in those states are farmers, it can no longer rule the nation except as a minority may rule. Reason: only about one-third of the U. S. farms...
...Normal" schools received their name (Latin: norma = rule) from one Joseph Lakanal, who agitated for teacher-training (Ecoles Normales) in France, in 1794. M. Lakanal was later president of the University of Louisiana...
...There was then no rule against freshmen playing on Varsity elevens...
...ascertaining whether a boy is able to got on at Yale, and away from old cut-and-dried methods, which as older graduates will recall, were a bone of contention between the University and its Western alumni a decade or more ago. We do not believe that any rule of thumb test, whatever it is called, will be of much use in discovering a boy's aptitude for college work. But the Scholastic Aptitude tests that are now being experimented with avoid that error; if they are not given too great weight, they can be of some use without doubt...
...Committee approved the recommendation of the Student Council for the revision of the rule as to the award of the insignia to members of the Second University eight, to read as follows: "Those who for two years have taken part as members of the Second University eight in a race with Yale shall be entitled to wear the 'H'; those who for one year have taken part in a race with Yale as members of the Second eight shall be entitled to wear the 'H' with crossed oars...