Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same combination on the floors of both houses. But if President Coolidge exercises his veto, there is small probability of any change being made in the Transportation Act. The advantage gained by the radicals is that, with the Democrats' aid, they can report out their measures and discuss them on the floor...
...Conference, however, is that there should be a Conference at all on the subject of Prohibition enforcement. Certainly Prohibition was made the law of the land by the Eighteenth Amendment, and machinery of the usual kind was set to work to enforce it. Why then, should there be any discussion? Why isn't this law enforced exactly as every other law is enforced? There are no conferences to discuss whether the law against burglary should be enforced, or whether the law against bigamy should be enforced, although there are constantly violations of these laws, and surely not all the violators...
...publication of President Lowell's report in which he deals first and foremost with the question of limitation of enrollment offers all interested an opportunity to discuss the situation from a constructive point of view. How soon the plan of the Faculty Committee which has been deliberating the question will be published is a matter of doubt and conflicting rumor; nor is there any assurance that the plan, when finally divulged will be of a definite nature...
...Debating Union in its second meeting of the year tonight will discuss the question of limitation of enrolment in Harvard, which President Lowell's annual report to the overseers has just brought into prominence. The debate will be held in the Faculty Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock, and all members of the University are invited to attend and to take part in the discussion...
...extraordinary to find the president searching for something to discuss with the secretary-treasurer, but it is satisfying to find that he still turns to Harvard for whatever stimulant he may lack. Yet he is, the whole club is, only following the tradition of other Harvard Clubs which turn spontaneously to the College whenever they have something to give; and, more encouraging, whenever they wish to be interested...