Word: finale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came the final vote, with 264 members approving the bill, 147 voting against it. Small but significant were the breaks in party lines. Twenty Democrats, mostly from Florida (which got higher duties on fresh vegetables and fruit) and Louisiana (which got a higher duty on sugar) sidled over to vote with the Republican majority. Twelve Republicans joined the Democratic opposition. Most of them were midWest insurgents. One of them was an eastern regular-Philadelphia's Beck...
...incredibly hoary spectacle of the two small, extremely stagey children choosing to remain with kind, gentle Nancy. Not even this situation satisfied Playwright Carl Henkle's taste for the archaic. He also introduced an inarticulate bumpkin who loved Nancy, who found courage to say so just before the final curtain. Margaret Barnstead played Nancy with great earnestness...
...field of concentration have become a mere means to a mastery of that field. The knowledge gained is tested in the divisional examinations; and in the case of honors candidates, a thesis provides a wider proving ground. When a man has passed his divisional requirements, he is excused from final examinations; his courses, having accomplished their purpose, are discarded. And yet a student may be refused a minor honors degree because in the opinion of the faculty perhaps one of the C's appearing in his record should have been a B. The means, in other words, is permitted...
...Harvard men have qualified for the final competition of the American Academy at Rome which results in the award of the Rome Prize, a three year fellowship in Landscape Architecture at the Academy in Rome, representing $7,500. Four men qualified for the finals. The Harvard contestants, who are preparing their final drawings in Robinson Hall under the supervision of Professor B. W. Pond '11, Chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture, are H. J. Hanson 2L.A., and T. D. Price, who graduated from the School of Landscape Architecture...
...preliminary competition consisted in the design of an island estate on a topographical survey chart which was sent to all contestants. Only 14 hours were allowed for completing the preliminary drawing. The final competition, which will be judged on June 29, consists in the completion and elaboration of the preliminary plan, and the submission of drawings and specifications for carrying out the proposed development. The contestants are required to work in private, receiving no advice or criticism of any sort...