Word: gavelling
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...sooner had the gavel fallen on the 67th Session of Congress, than junketing trips at Government expense began. "Junketing"-a word of obscure origin-means a feast, a pleasure trip, a good time, and has for years been applied to the custom of members of Congress to spend the Congresional recesses in traveling about the world on public funds. Junketing trips find their justification in being ostensibly tours of investigation in the interests of the people. In practice, they are just free vacation sprees. Inspection trips this year will take Congressmen to Panama, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia...
American superficiality and British thoroughness were not illustrated by the recent debate of Bates College with Oxford, as reported in the Gavel, the organ of the intercollegiate honorary society for debaters. The Bates professor who accompanied the American trio does not assert that the Yankees prepared their arguments more fully. But he draws a sharp contrast between their businesslike, precise methods and the longer, more extemporaneous British procedure. The three Americans had carefully dovetailed their arguments. The three Britons each presented an individual point of view, caring nothing for minor inconsistencies. The American debate was based upon a careful brief...
...voted to purchase a gavel for the retiring president, W. S. Youngman...
...retiring president, R. C. Ringwalt '95 was presented with a handsomely mounted ebony gavel...
After the address there was a business meeting at which twenty men were elected to membership of the society. It was also voted to give a gavel to W. R. Sears '91, the retiring president, according to an old custom of the society, which has been discontinued of late years...