Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traditional among the more out-at-elbow and haphazard methods of student self-rule at Harvard has been the raising of funds by the various house committees. Each year this necessary and indispensable evil has to be met to assure the proper functioning of student affairs within the houses, and each year finds an assortment of antiquated and unmethodical systems in use for the raising of these funds. That so much time has already elapsed without a common, practical method having been accepted is unexcusable, and it is all too plain that some common basis must be reached soon...
...Safest rule for Princeton v. Yale games is that when Yale has a good team, Princeton wins; when Princeton has a good team. Yale wins. Operation of that rule at Princeton last week was the least contradictory feature of the wildest, fastest, most astonishing Yale-Princeton football game on record. Sandbach's field goal and White's two touchdowns climaxing long marches put Princeton ahead 16-to-0 in the first 20 minutes. Yale came back with one touchdown just before the half. After intermission, Yale ran wild for two more touchdowns, the last on a long pass...
...David Thoreau, found in that gentle naturalist's Walden a blueprint for human peace & happiness. As a man, though he still carries a tattered copy of Walden wherever he goes, Webb Miller rounds off his memoirs by sombrely remarking that "the philosophy of Thoreau ... is impractical as a rule of life. . . . Often I wish I could find the peace which Walden represents to me . . . but now I am starting back to Europe to cover the next...
Mitzi Mayfair, long a favorite with Harvard men, thinks the new parietal rule is "all right". When questioned, she expressed surprise to learn that young ladles are ever permitted in the dormitories. Rather non-committal, all she said on that particular subject was "Girls ought never to be allowed in a boy's room without a chaperon. If a couple want to be alone . . . well . . . there's a time and place for everything...
Bert Lahr, famous funny man, also believes that the parietal rule is a good thing. He rounded out his remarks with the statement, "It's a good idea for the faculty, but I suppose not so good for the students...