Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authority of the President and the Congress.'' he wrote, "that U.S. policy seeks as one of its peaceful goals the eventual restoration of genuine independence in the nations . . . now dominated by Moscow, and that we will not be a party to any 'deal' confirming the rule of Soviet despotism over the alien peoples which it now dominates...
...Indiana last week, Marion County Superior Court Judge John Niblack ruled that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. must pay accidental-death benefits on a policy held by a serviceman killed in Korea, even though the policy specified that its double-indemnity clause would not hold good if the insured died while "a member of the military services in time of war." "What you want," said the judge to the insurance company, "is for the court to rule there is a state of war between the U.S. and some foreign power. To ask this court to assume the functions...
...taken enough French in high school. The idea expressed in the CRIMSON's editorial that the College could force schools to give three years of modern languages by denying entrance to students not so prepared it illusory, as all the Deans in Harvard College will attest. such a unilateral rule would only deprive Harvard of desirable scholars...
...current rule seems adequate for this purpose in all respects but one: quality of instruction. How bad the teaching is I don't pretend to know--the constant complaints may be more the results of compulsion than anything else. In any case, a required course should be better taught than others, else it would be wholly useless. Perhaps if the Faculty devoted less time to figuring out what the language rule was meant to accomplish and more to making the courses superbly taught, something besides an endless round of aimless revisions would come from the next fifty years of contention...
Finally, the Dean has not restricted our freedom. The only rule he has made is a limit on the total number of dates available to any one organization; organizations aren't even required to keep books. He has exercised his influence only to promote the benefits of film showings to Harvard extra-curricular life. We think he may have to do more to promote that end for the future, starting with our proposal. We are asking him to promote constructive freedom, not destructive freedom as you advocate. Walter Ulln '54 President, Ivy Films...