Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wesley Wait of Newburgh, N. Y., wrote a letter to President Harding urging him to take action if Governor Smith of New York should sign a bill passed by the state legislature to repeal New York's prohibition enforcement law. Said Mr. Wait: " Every state official who voted for this bill is subject to the law of treason, having taken the oath to sustain the Constitution of the United States...
...principle of an ounce of prevention, colleges are focusing their attention more and more on the entering Freshmen. Greater care in regard to admission requirements, such as the University's admirable new rule in regard to written English, is one sign of this attention another may be seen at Yale, where a special committee of the Faculty has been created to devote itself to freshman problems. More recent, and much more interesting, is the unique plan of the University of Maine. Next September the entire freshman class is to be assembled a full week before the regular opening of college...
...Wednesday he started from the float alone, swam through the right hand arch of Anderson Bridge and up beyond the Newell boat house. He was last seen in the water by W. C. Ladd '26 near the Brighton side of the river below the boat house. No other sign of Clapp had been found until late yesterday afternoon when it developed that James Milliken, caretaker of the Cambridge boat house, had seen a swimmer in a blue bathing suit climb up on the opposite bank and disappear into the brush...
...have been taking an increasing amount of athletic exercise during the winter months of the past few years, and this seems to indicate that the requirement of exercise for freshmen develops a habit which tends to stay with the men during the rest of their college course. A good sign has been the increased popularity of squash racquets which, from being a game known only to few, has grown until last winter an average of about 500 played it every day. The reservation sheet is posted each morning at 8.45; before that time there is frequently a line of twenty...
...witnessed, except possibly to a limited extent in real estate. The checkrein to the current expansion of trade and industry will, it is generally agreed, be afforded by the shortage of labor, and the already recognized tendency of labor to lessen productivity under higher wages, which is usually a sign that the peak of prosperity is not far away...