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...chairman of the Committee on the Reception of Foreign Students of the Class of 1925 announced last night the election of the following Sophomores to the committee: Tung Liang Chang of Peking, China; Patricio Vanenzuela Confessor of Manilla, P. I.; Kyung Duck Har of Chunju, Korea; Unbay Hsu of Peking, China; Jorge Manuel Morales of Caguas, Porto Rico; and Luis Rechani-Agrait of Aguas Buenas, Porto Rico...
...short term, "lame duck" Congress has at last fluttered to its long rest, and nothing in its term was more characteristic than the leaving of it. In the midst of Saturday afternoon's flurry in the House, legislation was again brought to a standstill by the refusal of Acting Speaker Campbell and Mr. Mondell to take up the Nitrates Bill. The joy of hilbustering is evidently infectious, for from the House it spread to the Senates where Senator Heflin, stemming the flood of some fifty House bills yet to be passed, arose and began a sympathetic strike. Fortunately the legislative...
...Amendment, which would advance the date of inauguration of the President and seating of Congress, gained strength in the House, but its passage is not conceded in this session. The measure, which passed the Senate by odds of more than 10 to 1, is aimed at the ubiquitous " lame duck" Congressman, who, defeated and repudiated by his constituency, continues long afterward to wreak his will upon legislation. It provides that the President and Vice President shall take office the third Monday in January and that Congress shall be seated the first Monday in January instead of March...
...proposed Norris resolution, to do away with the "lame duck" government, has passed the Senate by a vote of 63 to 6. The "lame duck" government is a venerable institution of long years' standing--that uncomfortable period in the administration when, in spite of the fact that both the new Congress and the new President, have been elected, the old officers still control the national affairs. The period is, in other words, the interregnum when the defeated President is still the chief executive. Someone noticed the futility of this system and the Norris Resolution came into being. It provides that...
...some revision was necessary. The present system of regulated choice of electives, substituted instead, has not so far accomplished the desired change, but, grafted to it the tutorial system, still too new to be fairly judged, holds the greatest promise for the future. There will always be the "lame duck" referred to in the Advocate as well as the "high-average" student, and the tutor is the one representative of organized scholarhood who can go among both with any reasonable chance of success...