Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loss of Captain Jenkins and Hill in the infield will probably be offset by the material from last year's championship Freshman team. If Captain Hammond is moved to the first base position, as has been rumored, it will leave J. E. Knowlton '26, Willard Howard '27, and either Isadore Zarakov '27 or H. E. Slayton '26 as the most likely aspirants for the three open positions. J. C. McGlone '26, Philip Keene 4 E.S., C. D. Coady '27, and W. P. Ellison '27 are other infielders who are expected to provide severe competition for the regular positions...
...about the need of changing the policy of a certain department, and was relieved to hear that it had already been changed two years ago. They are prone to make rather imposing mountains out of molehills; to orget that many of the criticisms by which they are disturbed offset each other: and to be upset by all sorts of trivial; personal annoyances. And while the graduates are in this state of mind, at is perhaps natural that the administration in its turn should be sometimes a little irritable, a little touchy and abrupt. It is primarily a case of nerves...
...thirds vote was necessary. The original vote last spring was 73 to 3 for the bill. But meanwhile Calvin Coolidge, the vetoer, had received an endorsement from 15,000,000 U. S. voters; meanwhile another bill designed to meet Mr. Coolidge's approval by providing increased revenue to offset increased pay had been proposed. The vote was a great deal different from last Spring's. The vote by parties, including those paired...
...best chance of any Minister of keping a Government in power-and his chances are not too good. But, as he retains the confidence of foreign Powers, particularly Britain, with whom relations grow more cor dial clay by day, his weakness in domestic matters is to a large extent offset; and he might well, despite contrary statements, be expected to survive in office a while longer, were it not for his illness...
...needed at Harvard, the Debating Union was organized by a group of men who graduated last year. Whether it will prove a permanent addition to Harvard institutions depends upon the enthusiasm with which a new college generation carries it on. An inexcusably late start this year may well be offset by selecting topics which will produce lively discussion at each meeting...