Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foregone conclusion that the resolution will be defeated. Liberals and Conservatives have already intimated their dissent. Labor is in a peculiar position; to support the motion would be to lose many Liberals who look to a strong coalition, and to oppose it means the loss of a considerable part of the labor backing. But Ramsey Macdonald, head of the Labor Party, by his recent friendly overtures from King George seems to have edged towards the side of conservative reform. If England's industries will not be taken over by the government as a result of this proposal, at least...
...been captured, is grandiose enough. With Ludendorff as dictator and the republican officials assassinated, they would denounce the treaty of Versailles, order the French out of the Ruhr, and follow a "constructive policy" against Poland. If they only could be successful in occupying Berlin and setting the program in motion, the world might see French and Polish soldiers shaking hands in Berlin and the last of the Monarchists, who now pester Germany so much, kicking German dust off their heels. But the possibility of success is negligible. The Centrist and Democratic presses have warned against taking this movement too seriously...
Meanwhile, the legend of how compulsory chapel was abolished some thirty years ago, is a useful parable to remember. Three times the Faculty voted to make the service voluntary; twice their motion was thrown down by the Governing Board, once through the hostility of no less a person than Emerson. When it came before the Board for the third time, Phillips Brooks was its chief antagonist; but he agreed, open-mindedly, that if the earnest students were shown to favor it, he would withdraw his objections. Their opinions, vigorously proclaimed, proved unanimous; and he was quick to help bring about...
Second, Uruguay will bring forward a motion proposing that any encroachment upon the rights of an American State by a non-American Power, must be considered as an action directed against the entire continent...
...open with a meeting of all candidates for the team at the Varsity Club at 7 o'clock this evening. Coach R. T. Fisher '12 will outline the work to be done during the three weeks this Spring and Captain-elect C. J. Hubbard '24 will also speak. Slow motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale football game last fall will be shown. It has been emphasized that all men who intend to play football next fall should attend tonight's meeting regardless of whether they will play this spring...