Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nations. Japan is immensely over-populated and her expansion is a necessary step in the course of events; the Japanese resent our racial discrimination against them; there is commercial conflict to be reckoned with; and most important of all, by a systematic "education" through the medium of newspapers and motion pictures, an utterly false impression about each other is cultivated in the two peoples. At home, we are fed upon the sensationalism of cheap dailies and periodicals and anti-Asiatic films; those who have investigated conditions in Japan report the same situation there. Propaganda in one form or another...
With a view to combating the vigorous offensive play which Harvard is sure to set in motion, Captain Carson contemplates several shifts in line-up. Shiras will be advanced from the defense to the forward line, and Carson will likely take his place at point, replacing Griscom, who will open at left wind. Bulkley, a high-scorer for the Blue combination, will prove a dangerous opponent at the right extremity...
...passages the volume consists of pure description; chapters are interlarded which are almost unsurpassed as examples of the short story; now and again the writer indulges in the speculative essay; all so instinct with warmth and life and motion as to carry the reader quite out of himself...
...machinery of the various executive departments of the University of Pennsylvania has been set into motion by the influx of letters from students who seek admission here in February. Hundreds of applications have been pouring in from all over the country, and while no definite count has been made as yet it is known that far more have applied this year than for any other second term in Pennsylvania's history...
...accepting the resignation of Roy Edward Larson '21, of Brookline, as Treasurer, at the same meeting, the Board unanimously voted a motion expressing its great appreciation of his invaluable services to the paper...