Word: limits
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...nation's oldest colleges (founded 1696), tiny, coeducational St. John's last year got 1,400 inquiries, could admit only 120 freshmen. It now has 277 students, next year will hit its avowed limit of 300. The obvious demand tempts St. John's to colonize the rest of the U.S.: "We think our kind of education should be offered to more people," Weigle says...
When Foundation support fail to materialize this Fall, the program committee was forced to make a to revision of its plans--to draw up entirely new guest list. On a limit budget, they could not afford to transportation costs to bring from Asia, Africa, and America, as originally planned. The had to rely almost exclusively on resentatives of these continents happened to be in the United State this Fall...
This created enormous problem it made scheduling an extremely hazard task. The committee could longer search the world for suitable speakers, as it had intended. The list of potential speakers was limit. They had no guarantee that people who accepted their invitations-- had come to the United States other, more pressing reasons--would be able to attend. One such disappointment occurred when Ja Ja chuku. Nigerian Minister of Finance had to break his speaking to attend an emergency of the United Nations Congo Committee...
...Civil Dialogue. Murray is not guessing which choice will be made, and he is far from sure that the majority of Americans are prepared to accept even the terms in which he states the choice. His expectations, as he says, are minimal: he only hopes to "limit the warfare" of conflicting philosophies and "to enlarge the dialogue." For dialogue, as Murray sees it (and as did St. Thomas), is the very essence of civil society: what makes the multitude civilized is rational, deliberative argument among men ("We hold certain truths; therefore we can argue about them"). Writes Murray: "The cohesiveness...
...Anastasius I in 494: "Two there are, august Emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right-the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power." This, says Father Murray, established a "freedom of the church" in the spiritual sphere that served to limit the power of government on the one hand, and on the other brought the moral consensus of the people to bear upon the King...