Word: session
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead of the usual rally, more will be made this year of the final open practice session of the team in the Stadium Thursday afternoon, Youngman announced. The Harvard band will march through the dormitory district gathering supporters on its way to Soldiers Field, where the procession will go into the Stadium to watch the team go through its final practice in Cambridge. Cheer leaders will be on hand, and there will be ample opportunity for the College to show its support, which was the purpose of the rallies at the Union. It was felt that the rallies...
...Vice President-elect had not, of course, hurried to Washington to ask the Vice President for his gavel or for parliamentary pointers on how to preside over the Senate. For the gavel Senator Curtis can have no use until the business of the Short Session is completed and he has resigned as Senator and has been inaugurated. For parliamentary pointers the Senate's new president, who has ruled over its Republican half since the death of Henry Cabot Lodge (1924), has about as much need as a grandmother has need for instruction in baby-washing...
...coaches' time with the squad this week, and next, will undoubtedly be devoted to developing and perfecting the much-needed aerial attack. It has been rumored that a shakeup in the backfield combination will be one of the first steps in this direction and this afternoon's practice session should undoubtedly reveal the nature of this shift. It seems likely that T.W. Gilligan '31, and S.C. Batchelder '31, first string backfield substitutes, will feature in the change. Both of these men have shown ability in throwing and receiving passes and are rated as the two leading passers on the squad...
...running headon into a train of Harvard thought that has for the past two years been gathering greater speed in the other direction. Students at Harvard today believe, in general, that there are few time investments that pay such short interest as Conversation and Contacts. The "bull session" is dead, not of the exactness of its titling, but of a realization that it was wasted energy. There is less and less time to spend on the accessible attainments of undergraduate thinking. The clarities and surewon advances of maturity are waiting, in the printed word...
Never during the campaign did Wall Street seriously entertain the possibility of Democratic victory. At the last, confidence in Republican success held the stockmarket firm, gave particular strength to public utility stocks. In the pre-election session, Commonwealth Power advanced 2½ points to a new high of 89⅜. Close behind were Columbia Gas, Consolidated Gas, American and foreign power...