Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule forcing schools to stop requesting photographs with application forms is a "stupid requirement," according to Eugene S. Wilson, Director of Admissions for Amherst College...
Commenting on the rule, Wilson said that the first people hurt would be those the FEPA was trying to help. Since any restrictive admission policy involves discrimination, it's a question of discriminating fairly, he said. "Photographs might help us to recognize students from underprivileged backgrounds who have high potential," he suggested...
...shoulders to his car despite his urging that they disperse. In Istanbul on a Ford Foundation project, Columbia University Law Professor Emeritus Elliott Cheatham urged the U.S. ambassador to intervene on Kubali's behalf because "I am sure Professor Kubali's attendance at the Conference on the Rule of Law at the University of Chicago last year strengthened his decision to speak forthrightly...
...time. This biography, the first appropriate to the scope and splendor of Wolsey's career, makes excellent reading on three counts: it evokes the vast historic tide that submerged the Middle Ages in the frothy waters of the Renaissance; it tells a whodunit about who would rule England's roost; and it is a success story of a butcher's son who rose to highest honors in his country and his church only to fall in the end. Though Biographer Ferguson (a Reader's Digest editor) takes a cool view of theological matters, the book always...
...Capitalist Manifesto approaches economics and political science, where expediency is apt to rule, in terms of morality and natural law. It asks not only "Will it work?" but above all "Is it just...