Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most startling shift involved Putnam, veteran quarterback. In yesterday afternoon's long scrimmage and signal drill, the regular field general was given a try at left halfback. This shakeup seems to have been caused by the failure of Gilligan, who has started all games in this berth, to show any marked improvement. Putnam has exhibited a fine brand of running this season but it does not seem likely that his shift will be permanent. He also took his old job of directing the team for a while yesterday and Mays, fleet Sophomore flash stepped in at half...
...Some years ago a number of people interested in gardening asked the Corporation to conduct the Garden for horticultural objects, offering to pay the expenses involved, which the Corporation was glad to do so long as the cost was thus defrayed. After a while the Committee became weary of raising subscriptions, and last spring it was decided that in view of this fact, and of the comparatively small scientific value of horticulture to the University, the Garden had better be used for scientific purposes. The direction of the Garden has, therefore, been transferred to a member of the Department...
...Daladier's rapid rise from comparative obscurity to Premier is doubtless the result of his refusal to support Poincare in 1928. He is probably not committed to the capital levy, and as leader of the Radical-Socialist party he has gained the long sought opportunity of the Left to get back into power...
...Ecole Normal, which the French press jokingly calls the 'Republic of Professors.' Many of the French politicians have been graduated there, including Painleve and Leon Blum. But despite doubt and ridicule, the Radical-Socialist minister and his new cabinet have a splendid chance, and having waited so long for it to come, they will probably use it well...
...During the rush season of the year, which lasts from about a week before the first registration day to a time some days after the publication of the University Directory, two telephone lines are kept busy from the minute we open in the morning until long after five o'clock, the regular closing time...