Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...unfortunate that this is a Presidential year for, because of this fact, Congress plays politics while the various departments suffer. As an example of such petty politics, Mr. Roosevelt spoke of the recent action of the House regarding the naval appropriations. It voted down a nine million dollar appropriation to be expended for necessary naval repairs and also a three million dollar appropriation which was proposed shortly after for the same purpose. Then, immediately following this, it voted an additional five million dollars for prohibition...
...with the University football team on October 6, which is the date left open by Notre Dame's cancellation, have been received by the football committee. The colleges asking for this date are Marietta College, Valpariso University, and the University of Detroit. The football committee has taken no definite action regarding these applications...
...nation is awake in a measure to these shortcomings this year, and we cannot afford to let pass the supreme opportunity for taking up slack which this campaign offers. If our parties are cowards, the most cowardly must be beaten. Action must be the watchword of the next administration...
These are grave times for true Liberalism. When the fashionable fervor of some undergraduates draws the admission that Liberalism is a curtain behind which they conceal the propagation of plans for radical action; that there are only two parties to the struggle for "domination," viz., the Conservatives and the Radicals; and that the Liberals drift a vacillating course through the wake of the struggle of the first two, it is time it be understood what Liberalism is. The knowledge may serve the purpose of showing the folly of the juvenile antics of those anaemic undergraduates who parade to class with...
...three dormitories which have been taken over were all built in the nineties--Claverly in 1893, Apley in 1897, and Westmorly in 1898. The action of the University in acquiring them marks the final downfall of "The Gold Coast...