Word: appointment
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...Both the collection and the expenditure of the Budget should be delegated by the Student Council to a small and compact committee which it should appoint. It seems tenable that the Treas- urer of the Student Council should automatically assume the chairmanship of this committee and that he should be chosen with this office and its duties in view Three other members should be appointed and it is strongly to be recommended that the respective treasurers of the three upper classes should be represented, either as active or as ex-officio members of this committee. This body should...
...ingrained that every political operation of form or fancy must run the gamut of battle. When women, writes Mrs. Blair, hold a convention, they allot to each delegate an equal number of complimentary tickets, but when men convene politically, they pass through the throes of civil combat to appoint a ticket committee favorable to one side or another...
...Sept. 1, to discuss under the auspices of the League the Senate's World Court reservations with the nations concerned (see THE LEAGUE, p. 10). ¶ The President published abroad his desire for coal legislation during the present session of Congress. He wants a law enabling the President to appoint mediation boards and authorizing Federal coal administration in case of shortage. ¶ Dressed entirely in white and wearing a corsage bouquet of violets and orchids, Mrs. Coolidge accompanied the President to 11 o'clock Easter service at the First Congregational Church. With them were John Coolidge and Mr. & Mrs. Frank...
Every once in a while, at no regular interval, the world's philosophers-that is, its academic, its orthodox, not its whirling dervish, ivory tower or bucolic sawbuck philosophers-appoint a meeting place, and hold an International Congress of Philosophy. The last (fifth) Congress was in Naples in 1919. The one before that was in Paris, and indeed the Congress has never been held outside of Europe...
...publication of the Letters of Colonel E. M. House. One of these letters told of President Wilson's offering to President Eliot the post of ambassador to China in 1912. It was known that President Eliot had declined offers from both Taft and Wilson, who wished to appoint him ambassador to the Court of St. James'; but the story of his rejection of the Chinese post is entirely...