Word: sacrosanctity
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...Spectator's defense of Dr. Butler is doubtless the expression of unthinking loyalty and perhaps even more of a desire to disprove the press statements that Columbia is a soothing hot bed of controversy." Yet its sane observation that "a law on the statute books is not so sacrosanct that one is forhidden to comment upon it or call attention to its shortcomings" contrasts pleasantly with the bitter personal arguments of Dr. Butler's attackers and defenders...
...that appears rather late in the day. Colleges have never been obtuse to such necessities, but of ten enough academic red tape has unhealthily restricted what should be the flexibility of collegiate administration, saving a proper measure of firmness and dignity. After all, an academy's calendar is not sacrosanct. Boston Transcript...