Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very clear and accurate crystal ball to estimate expenses and future conditions. Harris thinks that the current amount of loans needed is about a billion and a half dollars per year, and by 1970 about two and a half billion. The apparent enormity of the loans necessary does not rule out the plan on paper, whatever actual fund-raising difficulties (the University could attest that there are many) might be. When the general picture of American private debt is considered, however, these figures do not seem so formidable. In the past decade consumer credit went up nearly three...
Exactly a week later Dulles warned the neutral nations that they were staring Communist takeover in the face. Moreover, their dalliance with the Soviets and their rejection of Western collective security measures might change their new-found independence to nothing more than "a brief interlude between the rule of colonialism and the harsh dictatorship of Communism...
...future conversion of "doubling-up" is precluded by low ceiling heights, which rule out the possibility of installing bunk beds. Conway said that the room arrangements should "ease the problem of living out, since they "provide a miximum of privacy" and "get rid of the noisy entries...
...college such as Harvard where parietal hours are strict and privacy scarce, the Clubs might seem ideal locales for entertaining dates. But stern self-imposed rules, plus Dean Watson's knotty chaperoning regulations, have kept the appearances of women in the Clubs to a rarity. Only on special occasions, such as Yale or Princeton football games or one crew race in the spring, may girls be admitted. Abuse of this rule brings heavy penalties--usually club expulsion; this and cheating at cards are considered the cardinal sins of the Club world. (Except at the Porcellian, where card-playing is prohibited...
...some cases this bitter stereotype comes unfortunately close to the truth. But it is far from a general rule. A great many members have strong interests in some outside student activity and make the Clubs only a part of their undergraduate life. They find in the Clubs privacy, good food, and pleasant company in relaxed, comfortable conditions--all of which the Houses often fail to provide--and see in them an opportunity to get to know a small group of people fairly intimately. Academically, according to a tabulation made some years ago by Dean Watson's office, Club members...