Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volstead law. There is nothing in that act which directs reckless firing on boats, regardless of whether there is evidence of law-breaking. The Coast Guard has created this situation on its own motion. Charged with a certain duty, it has made its own rules as to how to proceed and has placed in jeopardy for his life every innocent navigator on the Atlantic Coast...
...itinerary will be as follows: Landing in Yokohama, the party will visit in Japan, Tokio, Niko, Kyoto, Kobi, and Nagasaki. Fujyama will be climbed. Thence the expedition will proceed to Korea, where Chemulpo and Seoul will be the points of greatest interest. Wild boar and tiger hunting will be engaged in here...
...general examinations. Perhaps the system is quite perfect, and our vague knowledge of it is due to a conscious effort of the reigning powers to disconcert the student forces by a sort of "secret practice" strategy. Still, such strategy can scarcely be appreciated by men who are anxious to proceed in planning for graduation and the work to follow...
...greater importance that we find means to retain the best of our present faculty before looking elsewhere for teachers of these advanced courses. Why are we losing them? The answer is simple: their work is not appreciated or recognized. It will require an unprecedented loosening of the bustle to proceed with the necessary changes. The lady must cease her Machiavellian policies and take more of her handmaids into her confidence. She must not hide her plans from those whom they most concern...
...difficulty with this solution is that the state legislatures at once proceed to penalize the university for meddling in politics. If a professor at a state university ventures to point out that a political policy is misguided, the university suffers. In Wisconsin, in 1912, as a retort to criticism by professors of economics, the legislature crippled the university by drastic cuts in its appropriation. Recently, Governor Ferguson of Texas, in one of her first official acts, eliminated several enemies of her husband in the state university by cutting out the departments of which they were the heads...