Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wetting the spectators who sit too close to the tank at swimming meets. But last week water polo loomed in the news. All winter the eastern colleges had been bickering about it. Last week the Intercollegiate Swimming Association announced that, in spite of complaints, it would not alter the rule making competition in water polo compulsory for member colleges. Immediately appeared editorials in the Yale Daily News and the Daily Princetonian. The Princetonian urged Princeton to resign from the Association. The News accused the Association of sidetracking a resolution to drop the game. Both spoke ominously of injuries, of unhealthfulness...
Playing four of its five matches yesterday, the Dunster squash team, in Class D. division A. of the Massachusetts State Squash League, was victor over Newton Y. M. C. A., 3 to 1. The fifth match, which cannot alter the winner, will be played Friday afternoon...
Compromise. Apparently the ten Commissioners under Chairman George Woodward Wickersham, wrestling with their problem at their offices in Washington's Tower Building, had at last decided they could come nowhere near unanimity on any fundamental "Conclusion" or "Recommendation." except one. That one was: IF & when it is decided to alter Prohibition, let the word "regulate" be inserted in. the 18th Amendment, so that Congress can from time to time alter Prohibition to fit changing conditions. Having voiced that suggestion, and in the absence of a positive agreement having (all except Commissioner Lemann) signed their negative list of "Conclusions & Recommendations...
...would pay this premium regardless of the disposition of his dividends). The dividends from this insurance would be paid by the Insurance Company annually to the Harvard Fund. The policy holder would be in full control of his policy and if he desired to do so he could alter the matter of the dividend payment. By notifying the company he could suspend his payments to the Fund and have his dividends revert to him in cash, or have them applied as a part payment on his premium. If he was in a position to give his dividends to the Harvard...
...consequence of this act may well alter the entire course of Anglo-Indian history. In effect Lord Reading pledged the Liberal Party to stand and vote with the Labor Party in extending to India that large measure of self-government under the Crown which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald has long been eager to grant. Standing together, Laborites and Liberals could, of course, outvote the Conservatives in the House of Commons, could cut the Gordian knot of India-wisely or unwisely...