Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both elevens scored once in the opening session. Gans putting the ball in the net shortly before the end of the period...
...first team faced the second in a long session of passing practice for the ends and backs this afternoon. The men were drilled in both the offensive and defensive aspects of the forward passe. Later the first two teams were sent against Harvard plays put on by the scrubs...
Innovations. At the opening session of the Court, Chief Justice Taft read the original docket, some of the cases on which are 20 years old-the first occasion on which it has been done in years. As usual the docket had grown by some 100 cases. The Court is more than two years behind in its business. The object of reading the docket was to put in force new regulations given to the Court by act of the last Congress, empowering it to decline to hear many cases and thus abbreviate its docket. Among the cases thrown out under this...
Besides this innovation there was another at the opening session. For the first time in history a daughter of one of the Justices appeared before the Court to argue a case. She was Miss Susan Brandeis* daughter of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, member of an old Kentucky family, the only Jew who has ever been a member of the Court. Justice Brandeis has been called a radical. He is an admitted liberal, a Justice in whose decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated to the rights of man. Yet he is a stickler for the formalities...
Trailing 16 to 0 in the third period, Yale made a tremendous comeback which all but carried it to victory. With Cutler starring, the Blue team swept down the field to its first touchdown. At the opening of the forth session, Yale completed a forward pass which put it into scoring position...