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Dean Watson said yesterday that no real action had been taken by any Master to alter the inter-House hours. This must have been done unilaterally," he said,"and there is an unwritten rule at the Masters should not act unilaterally...
...unwritten law that U.S. Presidents cannot be seen hanging around race tracks. For eight years, while he was President, Dwight D. Eisenhower hewed to convention. But last week, Horse Fancier Eisenhower (he has quarter horses at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm) stood in the rain at New York's Belmont Park with 51,585 other breed improvers to watch the 93rd running of the Belmont Stakes. For Ike, as for everyone else, the star attraction was Carry Back-a little, long-tailed colt who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. and needed only the Belmont to become the first...
Constitutionally, under the Charter of 1650, the President and Fellows have near-plenary power over all affairs of the University, subject only to the approval of the Overseers. But this power can be exercised without disastrous results only when the unwritten constitution is also looked to, and it is three guiding principles of that unspoken compact which Mr. Pusey has sometimes neglected...
...foreign aid programs, we would not only have a man in space, but we would in all probability have a foreign aid program going for anything that moves on Venus and Mars. I doubt if the people of this country would have it any different really. One of the unwritten laws of the land is that we put our money up where our mouths...
...outlook. It is no coincidence perhaps that the constitutions of the two countries show a similar contrast. Whereas the U.S. Constitution represents the belief that a desired form of political behavior can only be obtained by forging institutional checks, the British rely on more informal, internalised means of persuasion--unwritten codes and the weight of custom--to regulate the activities of government...