Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Representatives McCall, Peters, and Weeks, whose Congressional districts touch the river, must now secure the agreement of the House to the substitution of the Dana bill for the amended McCall bill, which was passed after the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce had reported it. This bill placed the Charles River under the law giving the War Department control over structures built across navigable streams...
...scheme will increase the representation in College from the country at large. It will serve to bring the University in closer touch with the whole public school system, and should prove a benefit both to the high schools and to Harvard...
...rare event to hear him pass an unfriendly judgment, and he disliked to hear it done by others. He appreciated keenly the peculiarities of his acquaintances, and could characterize them with accuracy and wit. But such comments were always kindly or marked by a light and playful touch, devoid of sting...
...powers of the new Council: anyone who was in touch with the organization in the past knows that the defect of last year's Council was not its personnel--it was representative enough--but its careful observance of the limits of its authority; its punctilious avoidance of certain burning questions which concerned the whole body of undergraduates but which had not been expressly nominated in the bond which created the Council. The new Council of course will have any powers with which it is endowed by the President and Deans of the University on the one hand...
...brains; it is in excellent physical condition, and has great physical capacity; lastly it is determined to win. Malcolm Donald '99, the second speaker, talked along the same lines, emphasizing the importance of Coach Haughton and the Committee on Athletics. This Committee has always kept in close touch with the undergraduates and will continue to do so as long as Dean Briggs is chairman...