Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, who reported energetically that it was good and getting better, Secretary of War Davis devoted a major portion of his annual report to the state of the Philippine Islands, which the War Department governs. So thoroughly did Secretary Davis cover this subject that it seemed he must long have been girding himself to defend "General Wood's most fitting monument" from being transferred to control of the Department of the Interior-a transfer which has long been proposed and often postponed. Secretary Davis said: "Never has the government of the Philippine Islands...
...present 215 men have signified their intention to take the examination and have been approved by the committee in charge, The four-hour examination will cover all the work that has been assigned from the beginning of the year up until December...
...work consists in two divisions,--lectures and assigned reading. It must be said, in all truthfulness, that they do not both cover the same ground. The reading is tested separately from the lecture material. It consists in considerable assignments of Darwin, Newman and others, but any one of these will cover the ground of the others. The lectures strike a certain percentage of the class as amusing. At the opening sessions there are considerable guffaws, but this soon wears off and you find yourself confronted by the awful reality of having to listen to Professor Hooton read from his little...
...other hand, the greatest disadvantage of Fine Arts 1d is that it seeks to cover, in the space of half a year, all of art from 300 A. D. to the present. Why this course is not expanded to occupy a full year is just one of those inexplicable mysteries. As a result, however, of its present conduct, the student is forced to learn a very large number of slides in a comparatively short time--and hence gets merely a bird's eye view...
...annual Union Christmas Dinner will be held in the Dining Room of the Union on December 14, it has been announced. The cover charge for a steak-dinner will...