Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awards to '57 broke a long-standing precedent, and a general rule still used at many colleges, of not allowing freshmen to borrow from the school. "If, how-ever, we know the freshmen well enough to give them scholarship money," Munro said, "we can certainly feel justified in awarding them loans...
...POETS and critics of approved standing now function as teachers in colleges and universities throughout the land, and 'the summer writing conference' has rapidly developed into an educational phenomenon . . . There is no doubt that the stiffening mark of writing learned by rule . . . has begun to show up in the work of young men and women who, in the United States, have passed through English Departments. A kind of graduate-school poetry has come into being: well written, beautifully organized, and nicely centred at some 'norm' of excellence, but at the same time, dead, dry and without...
...cited. By improving their techniques, some doctors hope to do an even better job of detection. Washington's Dr. Edgar W. Davis suggested one improvement-X-ray specialists should realize that half of the tumorlike masses which appear benign on the plate are actually malignant, so that the rule should be: when in doubt, operate as early as possible...
Unloved Girls. On the drama front last week, TV was well-served by three young actresses and a dozen men. The actresses were all love-starved: on Robert Montgomery Presents, Janice Rule proved movingly simple as an adolescent who found death as well as love with a hoodlum; on Philco TV Playhouse, Eva Marie Saint was convincing as another tortured girl who finally married a man old enough to be her father; on Lux Video Theater, Marilyn Erskine brought surprising authority to the role of self-conscious Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. The dozen male actors had a fine time...
...years. And last week Charleston, Ark. (pop. 900) quietly let it be known that eleven Negroes had been peacefully attending the white school since opening day, Aug. 23. But though such peace and quiet were not exactly the exception in the South, they were far from being the rule. Among developments reported last week...