Word: rule
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This law, which was passed 101 years ago, has become the source of increasing alumni complaint in recent years. Many alumni officials feel that the rule discourages participation in any alumni activities and hurts fund raising attempts...
Since Harvard operates under a special charter granted before standard incorporation procedures were developed, the University must go back to the legislature for changes. The legislature has relinquished most of its control. The five year rule is the last vestige of the Commonwealth's official influence in Harvard affairs...
...make its report before the 90th Congress convenes, and last week one of its members, Republican Representative William Dickinson of Alabama, suggested that the investigating group may recommend criminal prosecution of Powell. California Representative Lionel Van Deerlin has threatened to block Powell from being seated by invoking a House rule giving any member the right to challenge the swearing in of another (TIME, Dec. 9). Moreover, for all of Congress' traditional reluctance to criticize its members, Congressmen are under growing pressure from constituents to do something about Powell. Brooklyn Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, for one, considers Powell "as obnoxious...
...American artists today is that they exist by busily grinding out tardy repetitions of styles already arrived, or even through and done with in the world's major art capitals. Fernando Botero, 34, is the kind of exception to this dismal pursuit of fashionable copies that suggests a rule: blend your native vision with the history of all art and forget critics...
...Catholicism unquestionably is suffering a small but steady erosion of its clerical ranks. A major cause of defection - and of restlessness among priests who prefer to stay within the church - is the question of celibacy. Even though Pope Paul has made it clear that he will maintain the rule of wifeless priests, a surprisingly large number of clerics think that some modification is in order. This month Kansas City's enterprising National Catholic Reporter published a survey of 3,000 U.S. diocesan priests, conducted by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter of Harvard. His finding: 62% of the clergy believed that...