Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perch on the back-yard fences" and disturb the sleep of many a Harvard man. The Housing Commission suggested no method by which the cats may be gotten rid of, however, and Captain Brennan said that he was also at a loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad" and detail them to slink around the alleys and yards of the terrace and inflict their ammunition upon the molesting chorus. The only objection...
...gift of $500,000 for a permanent endowment of the Fogg Art Museum, made by one of the departments of the Rockefeller Foundation, stands out as one of the most intelligent pieces of philanthropy by which the University has benefitted in recent years. Such far sighted action, however, is not surprising, coming as it does from one of the most progressive bodies in the United States...
...confirm or deny rumors current yesterday that H. L. Shattuck '01 would succeed C. F. Adams '88 as treasurer of the University. No official announcement of Mr. Adams's resignation or of the naming of his successor will be made until after Tuesday when the Senate will take action on the appointments of Mr. Hoover...
...Among graduates, sentiment is almost without dissent in favor of the House Plan. The Executive Committee of the Council of Associated Harvard Clubs, numbering among its members men from all over the country, the other day took action unanimously approving the plan...
...these hopes were dashed when it was learned that Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist Church had been chosen (unanimously) as President of the Council for the next four years, as this action seems to make certain that the matter, instead of going from bad to better is going from bad to worse-if that be possible...