Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star Spangled Banner" is not the national anthem of the U. S. The U. S. has no national anthem, officially. In an effort to induce Congress to adopt Francis Scott Key's poem as the national anthem, representatives of many a patriotic and military organization flocked before the House Judiciary Committee last week to urge enactment of a bill for that purpose. The bill's author: Maryland's Representative John Charles Linthicum from the district containing Fort McHenry, over which Key, a prisoner on a British warship, beheld his country's flag still flying...
They learn that His Majesty is receiving telegrams from many of the Captains General pledging support to "any Prime Minister in whom the King has confidence." The Dictator's game is therefore up. He and his all-night colleagues adopt a resolution that he has committed an "error" (i. e. the telegram) and should present the Cabinet's resignation to the King...
...research. And finally, grants have been made for two things that may properly be termed "research projects": one a study of New England agricultural economics and the other a statistical study of some problems in the consumption of wealth. In February or March the full Committee will meet to adopt a budget for the next college year...
...distinct from what Dean Gauss, in his telegram to the Yale News, terms as the College. Princeton must not let her excellent equipment and curriculum blind herself to her own social problems. The same evils which Harvard and Yale are taking drastic steps to eliminate exist here. We cannot adopt a similar remedy though it might be advisable to plan future dormitories with that eventuality in view--but we can at least learn valuable lessons from the experiments at Cambridge and New Haven when we come to build a University Center or give the various club regulations their annual overhauling...
Whatever the outcome of these findings it would still remain a dubious question whether Harvard should adopt the two-sport rule of the Southern Conference. Undergraduates generally prefer their liberty, even if it might mean their death. It is certain, however, that if real justification is found for the rule now enforced among Southern institutions, it is the duty of the University at least to give adequate warning to participators in three or four sports and to offer such men more frequent and more thorough medical examinations than they might ordinarily receive...