Word: requested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only by request, usually, does the student talk with his dean. The subject is inevitably probation. After a brief talk some decision is tentatively reached. Tentatively, because the final decision must be made by the Administrative Board, of which the minor dean is not a member. Very often the Board reverses the dean's decision. Those who are in the best position to know the individual case are only allowed to make their report in the form of writing...
Last month President Roosevelt sent to the Senate a brief, earnest request that that body consent to U. S. adherence to the World Court. "The movement to make international justice practicable and serviceable," wrote he, "is not subject to partisan considerations. ... At this period in international relationships, when every act is of moment to the future of world peace, the U. S. has an opportunity to throw its weight into the scale of peace...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...
...Opera Company picked for production its 16th piece by a U. S. composer, no one was more surprised than John Laurence Seymour, an obscure California schoolteacher who, with little hope, had submitted In the Pasha's Garden. According to one story the Seymour opera was considered at the request of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, a fellow-Californian. According to another rumor, the Metropolitan judges drew lots when they found they had no new U. S. work which really pleased them. More likely, In the Pasha's Garden was chosen because it has only one act and thus could...
...Following reports that the White House had asked Secretary Ickes to fire two of his right hand men-and denial thereof by the President-newshawks asked Mrs. Roosevelt whether she had made the request. She retorted: "I never would dream of asking either the resignation or discipline of any one. The running of departments is the business of the heads of those departments, and no pure outsider would have the slightest basis to ask any head of any department to do anything about his own people...