Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remedy this condition as much as possible the Vagabond will recommend from time to time courses which the casual student can attend at any time with a good chance of spending a profitable hour. At present there comes to his mind Professor Lake's course on the New Testament being given at 12 o'clock in Harvard 5 on Tuesday and Thursday, and that on American History since the Civil War under the auspices of Professor Channing in Emerson A at 11 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
...effort to remove some of the burdens of extra-curricular activities from seniors might well prove a constructive move and obviously has much to recommend it. Senior year is a crucial period scholastically, and clearly the more free seniors are from outside interests, the more opportunity they will have to study. Furthermore, from the point of view of the activities themselves, it seems quite logical to expect that juniors, if less imminently pressed by studies, may find it easier to devote to other activities the time required. Thus a general introduction of such policies might be expected to benefit both...
...There is but one limitation [to the growth of Los Angeles] which looms, . . . and that is adequate water supply. That can and must be assured from the Colorado River. . . . We want the greatest reservoir and the highest dam at Boulder Canyon that the engineers will recommend and I am hopeful that the project will receive favorable action from the present Congress...
...second constitutional duty imposed upon the President is 'to recommend to the Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.' Opinion upon prohibition cuts squarely across the two great political parties. There are thousands of so-called 'wets and drys' in each. The platform of my party is silent upon any question of change in the law. I personally believe that there should be change and I shall advise the Congress in accordance with my constitutional duty of whatever changes I deem 'necessary or expedient.' It will then be for the people...
...found that low bid was 22% less than the present contract (with Middle West Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio), would add some $5,000,000 to the shearings and scrapings so insistently demanded by Budgeteer Herbert Mayhew Lord. Postmaster General New named a committee to study the bids, probably to recommend awarding the contract to the low International Envelope Corp., subsidiary of the (world's largest) International Paper...