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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lobbying is generally supposed to be an attempt to influence the votes of members of a legislative body. Broadly speaking, every magazine article dealing with a public question, every editorial, sermon, or speech that discusses a legislative measure and expresses views with respect to the principle involved in the proposed legislation or the method adopted to put the principle into effect, is an endeavor "to influence legislation." But the special work of a lobbyist is generally supposed to be to exert influence by secret methods and for special compensation. Apparently, you refer to this aspect of the matter when...
...score was made in the first five minutes of play by F. E. Bissell '31, Freshman third attack. Two other goals scored by the Harvard team could not be counted. The Freshmen showed a strong defense, shutting out the opposing attack on nearly every attempt at goal...
...Vagabond has always had a deep fondness for the perplexities of Boston, and a great interest in the attempt of Boston in general to keep up with the Joneses. Modern street cleaning, modern night clubbing, and modern garages are all finding their way into the highways and byways of the former seat of ancestry and Louisa Alcott. And now the modern music is howling its insistent way into favor, in an effort to bring Boston further up to date. With the advent of Stravinsky aided by the Glee Club recently, Boston has seemed to be infused with a new desire...
...Wilson's Attempt to Preserve Neutrality," Professor J. P. Baxter, Harvard...
Although men have, until comparatively recent times, persistently sought to find some mystical significance in numbers their efforts have met with but little success. The attempt to prove that qualities of good and evil are inherent in the number 7 and the number 13 respectively, has been virtually abandoned; human ingenuity has turned rather to a study of numbers in their relation to each other. While the mystic has discovered that numbers in themselves signify nothing, the mathematician has found that numbers in series or in combinations may mean a great deal...