Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Sumners bill which would give the U. S. Attorney General power to intervene in Federal District Courts in private law suits where the constitutionality of acts of Congress is challenged, and appeal directly to the U. S. Supreme Court, skipping the Circuit Court of Appeals. Although this method of expediting tests of U. S. laws was included in President Roosevelt's Court message, it was effectively overshadowed by his proposals for retiring members of the Federal judiciary. Last week less than one-third of the House membership cast its vote (122 to 14) for the bill...
...should step down to fight him man to man as the opposing candidate. Further, it was as if King George VI should spunkily issue denials of rumors that he was pro-Fascist; and as if the Archbishop of Canterbury should come crashing through at the last moment with an appeal plunging the Church into politics...
Although at first the plan may have only a local effect, as it becomes more publicized, its influence may well spread not only to other universities but to the educational system as a whole. The informality and the universal appeal to an organized but non-compulsory form of education should prove widespread...
More important, perhaps, than the outside appeal of this plan, is the fact that it emphasizes the value of furthering a pursuit of study beyond the mere bounds of degree requirements. Rather than assume an A. B. degree to be synonymous with complete education, the committee responsible for the plan intends to stimulate study after degree requirements are completed, as well as study in fields not connected with the student's life work...
...realm of major sports has long been sought after and should not go unheralded. Not since 1913 has the number of major sports at Harvard been increased, and basketball, one of the more popular of the minors has suffered the handicaps which accompany the less important sports. Popular appeal has brought to the attention of Quincy Street officials the justification of promoting the position of the sport...