Word: performing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Committees are the actual workhorses of the Council. They handle polls, conduct investigations, mull over their findings, and finally write detailed reports on the issue involved. They perform what Dean Bender has called the most important functions of the Council; deliberation and recommendation. Some of their proposals have in the words of the Dean, been "extraordinarily significant...
Macdonald and Forte experienced similar seasons when they led the Crimson. Tailback Macdonald, whose running and passing made him a Varsity standout in 1938, was able to perform in only three games of the '39 season owing to a badly sprained ankle. Novacaine injections, which failed to work during the Penn game, aggravated the damage to his foot...
...tribute to Harvard that it did not retaliate in kind to this brand of play, and still managed to perform as effectively as they did. The lowly civilans from Cambridge never resorted to anything but football, and by keeping it clean they only added that much more to the already great credit they deserve...
Coach Henry Lamar's first team, "by no means definite," is packed with players who have prep or high school experience at varying levels. Yet none of them can classify as stars until they have their chance to perform today...
...denunciation of those who played group against group and a criticism of the nation's "wobbling" foreign policy. He pointed out that the 80th Congress had appropriated more money for reclamation than the preceding Democratic Congress, adding invariably: "Sometimes we don't talk so good but we perform." At the end he always introduced Mrs. Dewey, who said not a word but whose modest charm was cordially approved...