Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stress and worry of large responsibilities, the Corporation has no time to lend its necessary permission to a much needed innovation. Sometimes it does not realize that student opinion is quite so deeply concerned with such an enterprise as it, actually is. But when the Senior class returns the verdict, as it did on this recent questionnaire, that there is more undergraduate interest in swimming than in crew, hockey, or track, then it is high time to consider the construction of a swimming pool a matter of considerable importance...
...forwarded Saturday by postal authorities to the dead letter office in Washington, there to be destroyed, the chain of incidents arising from the suppression of the annual Lampoon parody neared its end. Whether or not this is to be the concluding episode in te matter will be determined by verdict of United States District Attorney Harold P. Williams '03 when he announces today or tomorrow his decision as to the advisability of prosecuting the editors of the University comic, and by the action of a joint meeting which the Lampoon will hold today with the board of trustees...
...seemed, felt the need of an "authoritative rating of the universities of the country" by subjects commonly taught. He had prepared a list of 20 subjects and mailed it to "several hundred scholars and scientists" of the U. S., asking each to vote on his own subject only. The verdict had been: Harvard, first place in Chemistry, Classics, Economics, English, French, Government, History, Philosophy, Spanish; second place in German, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology; tied for second with Chicago University and Johns Hopkins in Zoology...
...means the underdog for tonight's game which hockey followers seek to make it. For sheer aggressiveness, the Princeton play has not been surpassed by a college team in the Arena this winter, and if the Nassan skaters can match the speed of their Crimson rivals tonight, the verdict may easily swing either way. HARVARD PRINCETON Austin l.w. r.w. Wilkinson Hodder c. c. Davis Beals r.w. l.w. Stout Howard l.d. r.d. Trenholm Chase r.d. l.d. Taylor Cumings g. g. Pepper
...Moseley & Co., Killer, Peabody & Co. and Robert F. Herrick, Boston lawyer, for $15,000,000. He claimed that these had conspired to rob his onetime firm, Willett, Sears & Co., of the control of two felt companies. After the longest superior court trial on record (184 days), he got a verdict of $10,534,109.00-the largest judgment ever awarded by a court to an individual (TIME, Dec. 29). When he received news that he had won back this fortune, Mr. Willett was ill of typhoid fever. Recovered, he last week brought suit for $15,000,000 against the Chase National...