Word: valid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however, Justice William Hitz of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that the bribery indictments were valid. Justice Hitz ruled that the Harding order transferring the Elk Hills reserve to the Department of the Interior "had the force of law until revoked or declared invalid." He said that "an official act need not be a lawful act to render the official liable but need only be official in form and done under the color of his office." Therefore the bribery indictments held good and Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have to stand trial under them...
...Lowell, demonstrating an admirable willingness to continue in his efforts to remedy what he believes to be an artificial state of affairs, has repeated the offer of the Corporation. Whenever five hundred men signify their desire for a dining hall the University will erect it. There is apparently no valid reason why the student attitude should change by next fall, but if such proves the case a hall will be built...
...Beebe expeditions are sent out by the New York Zoological Society. A party of ten went this time, traveling under sail, living in deck tents, trying to see how cheaply a four-month expedition can be run with comfort and valid results...
...fully to the spirit of the agreement. As in the case of the Hopkins proposals, opponents of the plan objected to the two team suggestion on the grounds that every college would make it a point to keep its beat team at home, this argument does not seem valid. We must admit practical objections but we can not include under this head the failure of a college to fulfill in a gentlemanly fashion its share of a mutual agreement. Harvard should expect her graduates as should also Yale to follow their respective athletic heads in a guiding policy of "mutual...
...University in 1924 the CRIMSON then "extended to Yale its congratulations not only for securing a man of such talents, but also for possessing governing authorities broad-minded enough to look at the drama in its proper light and handsomely to provide for its instruction." Those sentiments are still valid; each year will necessitate further congratulations--and further regrets...