Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates for these two teams should report to Harvard 6 at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow, when there will be a competition open to all undergraduates. Two speakers and an alternate are to be chosen for each team. Because of the short time remaining before the two debates, candidates will be chosen as soon as possible, and the work of serious preparation started. The question is one which offers abundant opportunity for witty, argumentation and repartee, and by its very nature is expected to attract a large number of aspiring speakers...
...took opportunity to give several rousing cheers. The New York World, however, bitterly points out that the present day youth is not expected to know as much as his father, that "there was a time when a college boy had to wrestle with Greek and Latin he had to report daily on the doings of pious Acneas, with special attention to the accusative as subject of the infinitive in indirect discourse." The boy of today, on the other hand, "For languages elects Spanish or French, for philosophy and economics a combination course known as 'social science', for mathematics some sort...
...President received a report from the Civil Service Commission stating that, for the first time since the War, the number of Federal employes in Washington had fallen below 60,000 (to 59,849). The Treasury Department made the largest cut in personnel, 119; the Navy Department added the most...
This amounts to a defy to the governments of the world, for it flatly infringes the rights of foreign nationals as they are understood in international law. An Iowa farmer who writes an "exaggerated report" about his Italian farm hand to his brother in Timbuktu might under this law be imprisoned for 15 years should he ever be caught in Italy...
...Regents, and demanding the immediate reinstatement of the ejected President. The statement, coming from the strongest organized group of educators in the country, is a fine gesture but can lead to nothing definite. The reinstatement of Dr. Guzzallo is now quite obviously out of the question, and the report as published does not attack the system which makes possible such abuses of an educational institution, nor does it offer any constructive suggestion toward making them less likely in the future...