Word: recession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain B. McK. Henry '24 conducted the meeting and introduced Coaches Stevens, Brown, Shaw, Haines, Newell and Ware and Dr. Harding. Mr. Stevens gave the plans for the University crews, saying that until the spring recess there would be three University crews, and after the recess only two. The emphasis in coaching all men will be a smooth recovery and a powerful leg-drive throughout the whole pull-though. There will be no jerk at the finish...
When the House met again the Opposition interpellated the Government on the attempted train wreck and charged it with complicity. The Premier refused to make a statement. The air then became thick with imprecations, shaking fists and water bottles. The Speaker was forced to adjourn the session. During the recess the Premier induced the Prince Regent to dissolve the Diet and so forestalled a vote of no confidence in the Government. Elections are to be held, but, meanwhile, the dissolution has created a "tense political atmosphere...
Then the orchestra began to tune up, just as if it were talking over the pieces it was to play, as children sometimes talk all together, at recess. Two taps, and Mr. Schelling began to wave his magic baton. First they played Chopin's A Major Polonaise, and you could imagine people dancing to it. Then they played Bach's beautiful Air for G String, and Scipione Guidi, concert master, showed what rich tones could come from a violin...
...which faces Harvard tomorrow has won 11 of its 15 games and tied one, while on three occasions it has been handed defeats by club outfits--the New Haven Bears and the Cleveland Athletic Club. More than half of its engagements, eight in all, were crowded into the Christmas recess, when the squad journeyed first to Cleveland and subsequently to Lake Placid. The Dartmouth and Williams stickmen were also passing their holidays at the winter resort, so that the Elis were well entertained...
...danger of overtraining, baseball practice for batting candidates has been reduced to three times a week. Coach Mitchell has confined the work so far to mere limbering up and has done little actual coaching. The management is planning a trip for the Freshman team during the Spring recess to include games with the Connecticut preparatory schools, Loomis, Hotchkiss, Choate, and Pomfret...