Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton's 195-year-old ban on liquor in dormitory rooms was lifted at a meeting Friday of the Board of Trustees and a new rule, described as "a recognition of an existing situation rather than a radical change" takes its place...
...rule reads: "Intoxication or disorder and bad manners arising from the use of liquor are particularly serious offenses and will subject the student involved to the penalty of suspension or dismissal from the university...
...delay before any rule by any administrative agency goes into effect...
...under the British regime. . . . Culturally, the system of education has torn us from our moorings. . . . Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly in the presence of an alien army of occupation. . . . We hold it to be a crime against man and God to submit any longer to a rule that has caused this fourfold disaster to our country...
Small, smoldering, one-gallused Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, whose noteworthiest previous legislative contribution had been a bill to send unemployed Negroes back to Africa, startled the Senate by offering a resolution to end the unwritten rule that "female attaches of Senatorial staffs" (i.e., Senators' secretaries and clerks) be not allowed on the floor. Statesman Bilbo, whose Colleague Mrs. Caraway already has the privilege herself by virtue of her Senatorial office, hinted as delicately as he could that present conditions cast doubt on senatorial "justice and chivalry...