Word: 63rd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just as important political palavers usually go guised as rowdy picnics, important doings were afoot at the 63rd annual convention of the National Education Association, which met, last week, in Indianapolis. Those present, a goodly proportion of the association's 147,000 members,* felt that the doings were "epoch-making." Herding into big Cadle Tabernacle and assembly rooms of the Shortridge High School, the delegates discussed...
...filibuster power is a grave menace which must be removed. Since May 12, 1910, the majority and minority leaders of the two parties have had to arrange on 66 occasions unanimous consent agreements in order to get consideration for important legislation. In the 63rd Congress (1913-15) the Rivers and Harbors bill was debated 32 days; the Panama Canal bill 30 days; the Federal Trade Commission bill 30 days; the Clayton Act 21 days and then for 9 days more, after it came from conference. As a result of this condition, the present rule for a deferred cloture...
...other events of the 63rd annual Harvard-Yale regatta on the Connecticut Thames, Yale was less casual. The Yale freshmen led game Harvard by three and a half lengths in two miles. The Yale Junior Varsity led Harvard by four lengths in two miles. The Yale combination eight led struggling Harvard by three lengths in one mile. And the Yale Varsity led courageous, bitterending Harvard by two lengths in four miles. It was a fifth consecutive Yale year...
...world. At Wellesley, Mass., some 400 girls became Wellesley College freshmen, were made welcome by the Christian Association at a tea; by President Ellen F. Pendleton; by guides who spirited them off in groups of twelve to tour the Library. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Vassar College, in its 63rd year, abandoned a precedent, allowed the freshmen to report the same day as other classes, instead of a week earlier. The enrollment was kept down, as of late years, to 1,150. President Henry Noble MacCracken was heard in the college chapel, likewise Dean C. Mildred Thompson. The dominant innovation...
Died. Jefferson Monroe Levy, 72, politician, owner of Monticello, President Jefferson's home; in Manhattan, of heart disease. He represented New York City in the 56th, 62nd and 63rd Congresses, inherited Monticello from his uncle Uriah P. Levy who had bought it from the Rev. James C. Barclay who had purchased it from Mrs. Randolph, Mr. Jefferson's daughter. He was a brother of Mitchell A. C. Levy, president of many Hebrew organizations...