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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next Tuesday evening has been set as the definite date for the Sophomore smoker, which is to be held in the Living Room of the Union. The speakers have been chosen and final plans are being concluded...
...this body and I have never taken part in a filibuster yet. I've spoken three times on this matter and at no great length. From the beginning I have insisted on legitimate debate. In answer to the Senator from Alabama,-I would suggest Feb. 10 as a date to vote. I want to be sure not to cramp anybody." Senator Heflin, a Court supporter, thereupon interrupted and mentioned that, if necessary, measures for cloture (the stopping of debate so as to vote) might be taken. Vice President Dawes, who has been fighting for a better cloture rule...
Easter, the solemnization of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the most important date of the Christian calendar. It begins the ecclesiastical year, yet is a variable holiday fixed for each year by a complicated equation of epacts, dominical letters and Golden Numbers. It falls on the first Sunday after the Pascal full moon, that is, the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the vernal equinox). Therefore Easter cannot come before March 22 or after April 25. This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited...
Last week the Manhattan Merchants' Association stepped into the clear; advocated a constant Easter; stated in a bulletin that the second Sunday in April "will be" the date it believes will be adopted; said further: "A late Easter often proves disastrous to sellers of many lines of merchandise because it shortens the spring season, thereby reducing the volume of business, while the lengthened winter season is of little benefit. With the adoption of a fixed date, all such difficulties will disappear. Clergymen were vexed...
...date Princeton has lost seven games while winning four. The Tigers opened against the strong St. Nick's, losing this encounter and the next two, one against the Royal Military Academy, and the other against the strong University of Montreal's sextet...