Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven minutes they imbibe and renew acquaintances, and then stand out shout for three minutes: "Go, Crimson," or some other suitably other-directed remark. Then they all sit down and start asking each other who won,. for the angle of the finish line makes surveying tools and a slide rule necessary for these spectators to guess the winter...
...viewpoint of the proletariat is, surprisingly, the best of the three, as far as angle of sight and proximately to both shells and spray are concerned. The one ground rule covering where the launch may go is that it must stay fat enough back so as not to slosh up the river for any eight. Of course, the rate at which some trailing shells went this year put the proletariat pretty well out of sight of the race...
...became tradition in recent years that the Governor of Massachusetts receive a degree. James Michael Curley and Paul A. Dever contradicted this rule, but the odds are that outgoing Governor Christian A. Herter '15 will be honored. Participants in the contest might remember that Harvard graduates are usually favored...
Last year, the Corporation broke its long-standing rule of not awarding honorary degrees to women. Helen Keller was the first winner; this year, another uncontroversial woman such as Helen Hayes, who marks her fiftieth year in the theater, may win. A more controversial figure, but still a possibility, is Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Three Baskets": 1) Vinaya, the monks' rule of discipline, 2) Sutta, sermons, commentaries and parables, 3) Abhidhamma, metaphysics, psychology and philosophy...