Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, impossible to see the long black arm of Fascism on the regimented life in the famous parietal "two women" rule introduced last fall. The regulation, however, assumes a magnitude out of all proportion to its original intent...
According to statistics, 87 sets of quadruplets and one set of quintuplets must be born somewhere in the world each year. In accordance with this multiple-birth rule, in addition to the Bridges quadruplets last week quintuplets were born (dead) to an unnamed North Carolina woman confined in Duke Hospital at Durham, and quadruplets (living) to a Madame Yves Le Louarer in Brittany, France. Because no one has any rule for telling where the multiple-birth lightning will strike, only large urban communities are medically prepared for it. No one expected a prodigious childbirth in the Bridges log cabin last...
There are many undergraduates who rebel at the appalling waste of time which is enforced by a custom of long years' standing. Toward these men the college authorities should adopt an encouraging attitude, instead of opposing them by such regulation as the extra course rule. Why should a man have an extra course piled on him simply because he tries to cover the work in less time than his less energetic classmates...
...That the Southern Conference be urged to adopt a fundamental code to embody the freshman rule, the migratory rule, the professional rule, and a rule providing for the maintenance of the present entrance and scholastic rquirements; or otherwise, that the University of Virginia withdraw from the Southern Conference and adopt such a code...
...rule applies only to Houses; in all other College buildings the former regulation making it necessary to have an older person to act as chaperone is still in force...