Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a purely pragmatic view, any relaxation of the rules will do. Saturdays are especially important, since the privilege is used most then, and if the standard is to be a simple matter of counting the number of girls brought into the Houses under a particular rule, the proposal now before the Faculty deserves wild praise...
Secondly, to the extent that this new rule limits social activity to weekends, clearing the week-days of feminine invasion, it means ordering and patterning undergraduates' life, something we abhor. Either University Hall considers students mature enough to run their own affairs or it does not, and so long as any limits but the most essential, any above the absolute minimum, are maintained, it is clear that the deans take the dimmer view...
Others have achieved eminence in education by following daring new formulae and sticking to them in the face of constant attack. Conant reached greatness by refusing to dictate policy, by avoiding the panacea, the rule of thumb, and the easy answer. He reached it by the exercise of courage and integrity, by constantly affirming in practice his faith in the individual and in the necessity of his freedom, by encouraging and demanding honest of his freedom, by encouraging and demanding hones and unfettered seeking after truth...
...said he had received four letters from Rome Summoning him before a group of Cardinals "who rule on matters of church discipline relating to the teaching of articles of faith," but would not make the journey because he doubted the authenticity of the summonses...
Whatever its theoretical merits and demerits, the privilege has often been upheld by the Supreme Court as part of our national Bill of Rights, and the same rule has been generally adopted in state constitutions. Article XII of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, part of the Commonwealth Constitution, provides, "No subject shall...be compelled to accuse or furnish evidence against himself...