Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election of the editor and sub-chairmen of the Freshman year book will be conducted this year as it was last term, when a new system of selecting these officials was inaugurated. Prior to 1928 the editor was appointed by the class president after the mid-year elections, but it was found that this plan prevented the board from doing its best work on the volume. As a result the present plan was inaugurated, which permits the selection of the board before the Christmas holidays...
...Prior to the regular session, William Murray, who was captain and quarter back of the 1919 Harvard eleven and who has been scouting Michigan this fall, gave the squad a talk on the various Wolverine formations. There was no demonstration of these plays, but this afternoon will undoubtedly find the Crimson eleven's in a brief skeleton drill against the Ann Arbor team's attack...
...fortnight prior the 88-year-old War Prime Minister had returned to Paris from his summer cottage, told friends that he did not expect to live through the winter. Early last week his valet found the old Tiger in bed, breathing heavily, unconscious from a sudden heart attack. Worried specialists rushed to his bedside, administered oxygen, strychnine, summoned his son, his daughter, his grandson. They privately gave up hope that the old man could live through the night. They forgot the implacable will of Georges Clémenceau. The man who carried France through the dark winter...
...received major consideration and brought in conflict two belligerent factions, one headed by Dean Lewis of Pennsylvania, the other by Dean Gleason Leonard Archer of the Suffolk Law School (Boston night school). Dean Lewis advocated reaffirming the Association's previous recommendation of a two-year college education prior to law study. Dean Archer charged a "clique" within the Association was attempting to foster a "college monopoly on legal education by outlawing evening law schools." Dean Lewis retorted that Dean Archer, in advocating recognition of evening schools, had "commercial interests only." Dean Lewis's recommendation was reaffirmed; law schools...
...split teams, where two men from each school speak on each team, giving each school an equal representation on both affirmative and negative sides. The method of selecting teams in the University is also new this year. A squad has been selected from which a team will be chosen prior to each debate of the season. Men who do not place on an inter-school debate will have an opportunity to improve their speaking before the next debate, and win a post on a later team...