Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next two weeks the others will have completed their schedules with similar encounters. It is quite possible that the undergraduate committee which has been appointed to investigate the question of a possible revision of minor sports awards, and which is incidentally made up of four seniors connected with major sports, may turn to the outcome of these contests as one of the few concrete indications of whether the present conditions merit change...
...Commission to submit to it a copy of this sugar report. Utah's Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, great and good friend of the domestic beet sugar industry, declared that "nobody except the President has a right to see" this report, which may be a major influence in the forthcoming sugar tariff battle...
...Henry Hollis Horton had appointed President George L. Berry of the International Pressman's Union as the State's mediator in this Labor dispute. Major Berry was born one county away from Happy Valley. He knows the temper of its people. He was a Vice Presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention last year. Great is his influence among Union Workers. Great is the respect U. S. publishers have for him, for his word keeps their presses turning. His good offices quickly settled the famed New York City Pressmen's strike in 1923, when for several days...
Besides external evidences there is little fresh information to occupy the interest aroused among Harvard men by the announcement of the House Plan. Since the Harvard Club speeches in Boston no major outline of the authorities' plans has been made public. How the original program is being expanded and developed remains a mystery...
...first major events of the Harvard Invitation Regatta will be run off this afternoon when a Freshman, a Sophomore and a Junior class crew race over the mile course in the Basin with Union Boat Club eight at 5.30 o'clock in the senior race for eights open to all crews. No other crews have been entered as yet, but when the shells line up at the start some more crews may have been entered during the course...