Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past experience the relations of student and teacher at Harvard have come to be governed by a series of unwritten laws similar in a way to the British Constitution, a flexible modus vivendi capable of reinterpretation and development to fit new needs, as in the case of Parietal Rule changes last year. These changes in the attendance system now under consideration seem to me to violate the well-established and effective convention that student attendance at lectures, etc., is a purely voluntary and individual matter. From my own contacts with the Harvard administration I have received the impression that...
EXCEPTION. Say it proves the rule but don't venture to explain...
...Eisenhower Administration has recognized the situation's great urgency. Secretary Dulles has explicitly stated that this country will not stand for further expansion of Communist rule. Election year expediency, however, has prevented the Administration from making a clear statement that the United States will enter the war if other means to peace fail. Yet at this time, with East facing West across the conference table at Geneva, such a statement is vital. A negotiated peace is far more likely if the Communists know this country will not allow them to win. Aggression in Korea might never have come...
...made until 1948. At that time, the provisions were changed to favor the builder in another way. Up until 1948, private construction firms had been permitted to borrow federal-backed money on a per-room basis. (By 1948, they were being granted $1,800 per room.) But now the rule was changed to let the builder borrow up to $8,100 per apartment. The result was a rash of small one-bedroom "efficiency" apartments and some gross cases of overborrowing...
...monasteries. On the summit of Italy's Monte Cassino, 14 centuries ago, where pagans had raised a shrine to Apollo. Benedict gathered around him a group of fellow Roman Catholics to withdraw from the world and yet be a part of it. He wrote them a rule of useful work and communal worship and solitary contemplation that has been a model of monastic discipline everywhere and ever since...