Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to the Princeton Alumni Weekly a graduate of that institution advocates giving the game of football back to the students. The present predicament at Princeton with the retirement of Roper as coach is seen as an opportunity to try out this theory, Harvard will be the first to join with Princeton in this venture, according to the writer, and the influence of these colleges will rescue intercollegiate football from the oblivion towards which over-mechanization and the autocratic control of coaches is rushing...
...Marden and his non-legionaire friends join the Legion and lend it their matured thought, their striking dignity and their intense respectability. They cannot destroy entirely the sense of humor that is characteristic of legionaires, and they will learn, among other things, that the Legion has kept faith with the disabled veteran and his dependents, that in its more than 10,000 posts it is giving unselfish aid to communities, states and nation, and that it is a mighty patriotic force that has served and will continue to serve this country well...
...than her older sister, Professor Edith Abbott of the University of Chicago. But she is the more militant. Perhaps that is why she has risen to high administrative work in the government and is discussed as successor to her superior, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, who retires to join the 71st Congress as Senator from Pennsylvania when it meets this week...
...William Edgar Borah cryptically, characteristically telegraphed: I DO NOT FAVOR ANY DELAY FOR THE SAKE OF DELAY BUT I HOPE NEVERTHELESS TO SEE SOMETHING DONE ON THE FARM QUESTION He later added : "I do not understand why all this excitement about a supposed filibuster; I do not propose to join any now. I think it is an exhibition of superlative impudence to be stating that the Progressives or the Democrats have not just as keen a sense of responsibility ... as the regulars. I am in favor of going ahead and disposing of business in an orderly and, I trust, intelligent...
...Ames competitions, the drawing up, presentation, and solving of a series of moot cases on various subjects, are renewed every year in the Law School. All first-year students who are interested join some particular law club which is part of the Ames competition. Eight men, some of whom are carried on from year to year, constitute a club, while others are organized if necessary. The competitions culminate in the second year when the clubs that have completed certain requirements are entered in the qualifying round. Eight winners of the qualifying round go into the quarter finals, and of these...