Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reparations Commission invited Montague Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and Sir Josiah Charles Stamp to sit on No. 1 commission; Reginald McKenna, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, was invited to sit on the commission which is to concern itself with tracing German capital abroad. The choice of Britain's delegates was made on the advice of Sir John Bradbury, after consultation with British political leaders. Sir John was Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1913 to 1919 and signed the first Treasury notes issued by the British Government soon after the War, which for several years...
...Allies, having sunk their differences by compromise, called upon M. Louis Barthou, Chairman of the Reparations Commissions, to invite the U. S. Government to send experts to sit on each of the two commissions of inquiry. M. Barthou wrote to Colonel James A. Logan, U. S. observer on the Reparations Commission, giving him further information required by U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes...
Baseball coaches in ten New England colleges will sit in the grandstands in the future while the captains of the teams direct the game from the field, according to a decision reached at a recent meeting of the college presidents. Of these ten teams five,--Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, Bates, and Tufts,--were on the University 1922 schedule. This action is part of an organized effort to raise the standard of New England intercollegiate athletics. Harvard was not represented at the meeting, nor was Yale...
...recent ruling of the New England Association of College Presidents directing baseball coaches to sit in the grand stands during all games is the opening gun in their campaign to reduce the importance of athletics in American universities. Realizing the fallacy in the well-known assertion that "the best advertisement for a college is a winning team", the presidents of Amherst, Bates, Hamilton, Trinity, and Wesleyan have attempted an additional reform by insisting that their coaches be regular members of the teaching faculty...
...theory of having coaches sit in the grand stand, like that of eliminating early season practise, will undoubtedly do much toward making the game more of a sport and less of a science, but it will hardly be effective in reducing the importance of the outcome. Before that can be satisfactorily accomplished, the entire outlook both of the student body and of the alumni must undergo a radical transformation--which is a task not for the presidents, but for the psychologists...