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...prudence and married her. A character in her own right, who long survived her conqueror husband, Sarah was a devoted wife but no doormat. Once she took the annoying last word by cutting off her hair; to her chagrin John apparently never noticed it. but later she discovered her shorn locks laid away with his carefully guarded treasures...
...find men willing to fill these positions. Each House dean would have charge of a number varying from 200 to 280, as against the much larger figure with which the deans in charge of the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes must now cope. But House deans would be shorn of disciplinary power: cases involving disciplinary action would be handled in University Hall. Their dependence, while resident in the units, on records kept in University Hall, is a minor problem for official solution: what is of interest here is the question: would the presence of deans in the House...
...weekly with him, and their advice would be the more valuable in cases of disciplinary action for their living in the Houses. But in cases of severe disciplinary action a student's tutor, and his House senior tutor and Master are almost always consulted anyway: the resident dean, therefore, shorn of disciplinary power, would be on a par with the resident tutor so far as his relations with House residents. This step would constitute a further decentralization, and would make more healthy contact between University Hall and the undergraduates as they live in the House plan...
...lived by the average husband and wife faithfully devoted to each other. . . . The relationship of husband and wife was consummated and confirmed by their subsequent cohabitation, acknowledgment, habit and repute." While New York mistresses were losing their legal standing last week, New York wives were also being shorn of some of their power when Governor Lehman signed four bills effecting the first changes in the State's alimony laws in half a century. Up to last week the New York civil law, as a punitive measure, required a judge to jail a husband who was in default...
...whether the old of the Street in the end ovades the law, or is gently rapped ever the knuckles, there is reason for feasting and merry-making. Enough that for a day or a month the House of Morgan will stand before the world shorn of its awful respectability, its soundness, its pompous righteousness. For awhile at least, the mighty will be on trial in a position exposed to the insinuations and questionings of the vulgar people with whose money he has been playing...