Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to try to make the Senate interesting. ... I am going to make a fight to have everything done in the open and aboveboard. I want no secrecy. I will try to have executive sessions abolished entirely." So spake Senator-elect Cole L. Blease, ebullient Democrat from South Carolina, as he was looking over Washington, preparatory to taking office...
...University Wrestling Team with a record of two decisive victories over M. I. T. and Springfield, will meet Norwich College at 8 o'clock tonight in Hemenway Gymnasium. The Freshman team will go to Andover this afternoon for its initial meet. The Freshmen will elect their captain just before they meet the Andover team. Coach Lewis believes the Crimson teams in excellent condition and is very much encouraged over the outlook. The Norwich team has shown much strength in its previous meets and is expected to be in the best of form when it meets the Crimson tonight...
...coaches, N. R. Himes 2G. and R. S. Fanning 21, will hear any new men who wish to speak at that time. Those men retained will join the squad without handicap. Candidates will be called on for a five-minute speech on whichever side of the question they may elect. No previous experience is necessary. The question as worded by Yale is. "Resolved, That this house views with alarm the present tendency of eastern colleges to stress a standard of business utility in college education...
Declaring that crew at Harvard was not a sport open only to the sons of rich men, or to the socially elect, Coach Stevens launched the 1925 rowing season yesterday afternoon in Smith Halls Common Room with a vigorous speech in which he defined the exact status he felt the sport should bear in relation to athletics in the University. Over 200 students, were assembled when he began speaking...
...Bingham, captain-elect of Yale's 1925 football team, has been dropped from college and has resigned the football captaincy, it was announced yesterday at New Haven...