Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last the total war which the Crimson urged from the beginning of its campaign has been launched against the tutorial schools. There can be no mistaking the intention back of the rule which the Faculty passed yesterday making a student who patronizes a tutoring school "liable to disciplinary action." The half-way reforms and the moral disapproval hastily improvised last year have been reinforced by a vote recognizing that the value of a Harvard degree is impaired by the existence of shops where money substitutes for the cost of intellectual labor...
...rule is to go into effect immediately, and this raises the question of how it is to be enforced. The Faculty has not yet stated the means it intends to use in making the vote effective, but the precedents of Harvard's liberal policy toward its students make it probable that the cruder forms of police power will not be used. Yard cops will not be stationed at cram parlor doors to seize the Bursar's cards of men who, from choice or apparent necessity, continue to violate the will of the Faculty. It is very likely that tell-tale...
...absence, as in the case of the "Allied change of mind." To get weary is therefore fatal for the post listener as I experienced when CBS and UP picked up Nazi Admiral Luetzow's statement about the scuttling of the Nazi destroyers at Narvik. As a rule the admiral talks so humdrum that he deserves only one quarter of an ear but that time everybody but me thought he had big news...
...conventional positions . . . but they are lost in an emergency or in creative tasks at any time." The times Neville Chamberlain came upon as Prime Minister were not conventional ones. They saw superannuation and complacency go down before threadbare desperation, Christian morality and capitalist economy succumb to the hungry rule of tooth and claw. They saw Anschluss, Munich, Prague, Poland, Norway...
Just take one example. Here is a rule of the New York meeting: "If your guest is overbearing, picture him in his B.V.D.'s to restore your poise. 'No man is a hero, etc.'" It sounds like a great idea but without a considerable smattering of indifference it would be decidedly risky. To a Harvard man it might be enough to "picture" a man in his B.V.D.'s, and let it go at that. Decorum would be preserved, except in the mind of one timid fellow, busy with his visions, wondering whether that blustering professor facing him prefers red flannels...