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...formally accepted and made president subject to the concurrence of the Overseers. As before mentioned, a concurrent vote of the Overseers was necessary to the validation of the Corporation's choice, and it is a familiar bit of Harvard history that for a while the Overseers declined to concur. The many questions concerning the future are said to have excited opposition in many quarters. The conservatives feared that his election would mean the decline of their influence. The Overseers referred the nomination to a committee on March 18 and received a favorable report from the committee on April 7. However...
...post-Revolutionary Ireland and with Life. A power plant is wrecked, an idealist is shot and therefore a man somehow becomes reconciled to his daughter. The connection between these dramatic entities lies solely in the fact that they occur on the same stage, and weary first-nighters could heartily concur in the German engineer's observation that "this isn't a country, it's a debating society." The uniform worn by a commandant of Free State constabulary is very impressive...
...Obviously this cannot be done in the case of Japan without the concurrence of the United States; nor will any steps be taken toward it without assurance that, if taken, this country will concur. The United States is not a member of the League, but it is a party to the Kellogg-Briand pact of Paris, and there can be no doubt that Japan, contrary to that pact, has sought to settle a dispute by other than pacific means...
...about insular independence. "For several months." said he, "Governor General Dwight F. Davis has wanted to resign owing to illness in his family.* Filipino leaders have suggested that, instead of resigning, he go on leave of absence in order to visit his family before making a final decision. I concur in this suggestion, having urged the Governor General to adopt this plan instead of resigning." At Manila both legislative houses adopted a carefully prepared memorial reiterating their demand for immediate independence, presented it to Secretary Hurley. Said Acting President Sergio Osmena of the Senate: "We are not seeking reforms...
...Wirth's to call out for a "seidel of light" with which to wash down rye bread and cheese. Those many who scan these lines may have already been to and disliked these places: they may go and dislike them, but there are many of both ilk who will concur with the opinions of the Vagabond. And whatever the reactions of the Vagabond he himself has even now paid off a debt long over due the creditors, a debt of placid enjoyment which stretches far into the past and lights the misty reaches of the future...