Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Penn oarsmen arrived in Cambridge yesterday morning and went out for a brief practice session about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Spuhn, former 150-pound coach at the University and now crew mentor at Penn, arrived with the squad of invading oarsmen...
Into the Cabinet session was brought news that the printers employed by the Daily Mail had struck rather than print an anti-labor editorial (TIME, May 10), thus attacking a "right" which most Englishmen consider fundamental: "freedom of the press." The Cabinet decided, on the basis of such evidence as was at its disposal (naturally an unguessable quantity to outsiders), that this attack upon the freedom of the press had been made at the instigation or with the approval of the Trade Union Council. Upon this premise, a further decision was made and announced: that negotiations would not be resumed...
...societies-four different Greek-letter brotherhoods that persistently, furtively, hugged their insignia and traditions despite attacks three years ago and in 1916, when Principal McDaniel was installed at Oak Park to stamp them out. A detective had been employed to "get the goods" on these brotherhoods, and in a session with this sleuth last fortnight the 51 had confessed all, promised to disband. Solemnly, regretfully, the "grip" (private type of handshake) had been given a last time all around. A last time they had whispered their passwords and unguessable secrets. Then, like brave men, they had declared their fraternizing formally...
Methodist Episcopal, South. The general conference is legislative and judicial. Last week the lay and clerical delegates hoped for a sedate session, but occasionally broke up into opinionated wrangles. An attempt to railroad through a stiff fundamentalist resolution caused the noisiest row. The resolution was pocketed in committee. Prohibition was approved, theatres damned. At one session the 2,000 delegates paused to pray that "peace and brotherhood be restored to England...
...conduct of the meeting was in the hands of M. A. Cheek '26, President of the Students Council, and during the early part of the session, he introduced a series of students who spoke on various topics of interest to the Overseers. E. C. Aswell '26, Chairman of the Student Council Committee on Education, discussed the report recently drawn up by his committee. W. L. Tibbetts '26, described the changes made in the student employment office during the past year. Cheek himself spoke enthusiastically of the change brought about in Harvard athletics by the creation of the position...