Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand men of Harvard will be denied the pleasure of seeing the Purdue band in action at the encounter in the Stadium today. One hundred and twenty-five men of Purdue, comprising the membership of the band, were unable to secure the necessary permission of the Board of Trustees to make the trip from Indiana to Cambridge...
Since Captain C. R. Wilcox, star ground-gaining back of the Purdue aggregation, appeared yesterday afternoon at the Soldiers Field Locker Building on crutches, there is little likelihood of his being seen in action today...
...near Canton. While the silk-cargo boat on which he was a passenger was rounding a curve in the stream, a group of some 30 bandits, armed to the teeth, was seen on the bank. The silk boat was heavily armed against such a contingency, and cleared decks for action. But the bandits had a large sign displayed which read. "We are today only attacking fishing boats...
...deep in the "Rules and Regulations of College Studies" is tucked the innocent little statement that the Administrative Board can put a student on probation at any time "in exceptional circumstances." Failure at November does not automatically make an upperclassman, as it does a Freshman, a subject of disciplinary action: but the bad failures at November are inappropriately called "exceptional," and retribution follows. Often it comes as a surprise. The Sophomore has not the advantages of the Freshman. There is no one to warn, comfort, and command him and the autumnal slaughter of the innocent is consequently widespread...
...eyes, Louis Cardinal Billot, 81-year-old Frenchman, a foremost theologian, renounced his red hat and repaired last week to France to enter a monastery as plain Father Billot. The alleged cause of his resig nation was the Pope's placing Leon Daudet's newspaper L'Action Francaise on the Index Expurgatorius (thus banning it at once from all Roman Catholic homes). His Holiness' policy was based on the conviction that the wily, obstreperous editors of L'Action were using their paper (devoted to the royalist cause) as the organ of a school of thought...