Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very well have taken one of these notices for a text--it would have been more dignified than the description of woman's legal status as that of a "pet monkey". However true it may be, in or out of law, it should never have been given such official sanction. Much better to have said pet parrot, or any other innocuous animal...
...citizens, if Harvard College still exists for the purpose declared primary in its charter--for the advancement of all good literature--and if the one purpose is clearly compatible with the other--then concentration in German for the sake of some acquaintance with German literature has the same general sanction as devotion to the study of any literature; and there remains only to show what particular advantage may accrue from such concentration...
...foolish to conceive of a world court administering international law in the way that national courts carry out national law, for the law of nations is by no means a fixed and unchanging body of rules. It finds its sanction for the most part only in public opinion, and therefore its very nature requires a close connection with the sphere of politics. Senator Borah's sheerly legalistic ideal world court is a myth and an impossibility...
...pool, new squash courts, even a skating rink, a golf course, and a polo field have been recommended. Student opinion has long urged these objects as real needs. Several of them have been promised repeatedly, and the swimming pool for one seems to have received all but the official sanction of the Corporation. Now that the Alumni as represented by their committee have taken the same strong stand action is to be expected...
...pool on the site of the Hemenway Gymnasium which might have conflicted with a projected chemical laboratory was abandoned in favor of a highly practical location on the bank of the Charles below the Weld Boat House. The Athletic Association and the Planning Board have needed only official sanction to begin work immediately. The one remaining silent voice is that of the Corporation. With student opinion so clearly apparent, there seems no longer to be an adequate reason for refusing assent...