Word: session
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Freshman football team was put through a long, hard practice yesterday in an endeavor to eradicate some of the faults which came to light in the Groton game. The practice began with a short drill in tackling the dummy. This was followed by a long session in kicking, in which Frothingham, Lewis and Marsh punted to the first team's backs, with the second string backs forming the interference against the ends. Later, several new plays were tried out, and the coaches illustrated breaking through the line. Eckfeldt, Goodale, Keays and Meiss were excused from practice on account of injuries...
...large part of the time of the House is taken up with appropriation bills. The session of Congress which has just closed was of ten weeks' duration and during that time, one thousand million dollars was appropriated, or ten millions a week. We are now passing through a veritable orgy of Extravagance. With an enormous debt, and a large annual defleit, the Ways and Means Committee is now considering the revision of the tariff, and on next Tuesday will present a bill to Congress which, it is hoped, will increase the annual revenue by one hundred millions of dollars...
...served continuously since that time, and has been for a number of years a member of the committee on ways and means, which is one of the most important in the House of Representatives. He was also chairman of the committee on library and art during the last session...
...general topic for the morning session was "Present Educational Needs." M. L. Perrin, professor in Boston University and superintendent of schools in Wellesley, delivered the first address. He pointed out the lack of home influence on students in the grammar schools and said that they must be worked with individually. Professor W. T. Foster '01 of Bowdoin College emphasized the need of backbone in college administration to prevent standards from being lowered for the sake of larger numbers. H. W. Holmes '03, chairman of the Committee on Educational Progress, then read an abstract from his report...
...Harvard Teachers' Association will hold its eighteenth annual meeting in the New Lecture Hall today. There will be two sessions, one in the morning, at 9.45, and one in the afternoon after the annual dinner, which will be served in the Union at 1 o'clock. At the morning session M. L. Perrin, Professor in Boston University and superintendent of schools in Wellesley, and Prof. W. T. Foster '01 of Bowdoin, will speak on "Present Educational Needs." This will be followed by an abstract from the report of the Committee on Educational Progress, by H. W. Holmes '03, the chairman...