Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard, as did the House, that the conferees had reached an agreement on the Dill (Senate) and the White (House) radio control bills...
...authorities have been consulted and that this uncertainty may inevitably continue until the courts, in the course of formal proceedings, have pronounced themselves on the matter at issue. Neither is there any reason made manifest why Councillor Fitzgerald's view of the unconstitutionality of the Harvard Boston co-operative agreement should necessarily be accepted as correct until the particular question now raised has been judicially determined. But, by and large, as one more notable entry in the annals of undergraduate journalism, the editors of the Crimson have "runs the bell" most gayly and gallingly. --The Boston Transcript...
...sure of the answer. But the editors of the Harvard Crimson offer a bit of sass today which may go down in the history of undergraduate journalism as the most epicurean of its kind ever known. The Crimson remarks that Councillor Fitzgerald, in his claim that the co-operative agreement between the Boston Public Library and the Harvard Business Library violates the constitutional anti-aid amendment "seems to have scored a point." And the paper continues: "Harvard has been particularly unfortunate in its attempted mergers for some time. The proposed consolidations of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Moreover, the agreement definitely promises to make the full resources of the two institutions directly available to any future business branch of the Boston Public Library which may be established in the downtown district. Time and again the librarian and trustees of the Boston Public Library have labored to secure decent attention from the Boston City Council for such a branch, similar to the business branches which progressive cities elsewhere throughout the Nation have established. And time and again their efforts have been thrown down, because members of the City Council, have called this "mere graft" for the business community...
...important but, in so far as Mr. Fitzgerald's case involves the question whether the agreement between the two libraries is a violation of the anti-aid amendment the controversial situation is very different. Upon a careful, fresh reading of this section of the State's Constitution, no fair mind can deny that the councillor has been at least well justified in raising this issue. The language of the amendment is surprisingly inclusive, especially in its words restricting even the use of public property by any school or institution not wholly under public control. In this case, of course...