Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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House Reception. Great was the uncertainty in the House as to the proper method of receiving the Senate's Farm Bill. Many a Republican leader felt that the Debenture Plan affected revenue, and therefore invaded the House's constitutional prerogative to initiate this kind of legislation. But the Farm issue temporarily overtopped the Constitution. Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee put it thus: "If we should start some Constitutional argument here, the people wouldn't understand and we couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell...
Conference. Farm Relief thereupon disappeared into the subterranean chambers of the Capitol where five Senators and five Representatives began to wrestle with their disagreements. Of the Senate conferees, three had opposed the Debenture Plan, two had favored it. All five of the House conferees opposed it. Its extirpation seemed certain...
...dangerous to say that the Harvard plan is an attempt to be British, an attempt to ape the Oxford-Cambridge program of vigorous intramural sports and one annual inter-varsity meet in each sport. It is dangerous because it may not be true. And if Harvard were accused of something that was not true, and accused by a university they refer to as "one of our better provinces," the resultant reaction might be a race riot between Harvard students and the hinterland. In all events, Harvard, would be fortifying her athletic record, which of late has been none too rosy...
...whether the Harvard plan is consciously British or not, the process of acclimating it to American custom and even to New England hauteur is not without anticipation of untold difficulty. In the matter of the British plan there was no tradition to buck. Oxford and Cambridge have concentrated their athletic relations to dual meets with each-other even since the inception of varsity athletics at the two universities. In the matter of the proposed Harvard plan there would be the necessary break-down of nearly a century of tradition. The Dartmouth and Holy Cross games have become a tradition strongly...
...last two games, is trying to regain its winning stride, but bad luck has been following Coach Mitchell's men and has now manifested itself in the bad knew of E. H. McGrath '31, flashy short stop, which may keep him on the side lines. In case McGrath cannot plan his place at short will be taken be Captain G. E. Donaghy '29, while G. Whitney '29 will cover the hot courier and B. H. Ticknor '31 will fill the latter's left field post...