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Shipstead's Oath. So narrow seemed the margin of votes that Senate Clerk John C. Crockett was despatched to Baltimore, there to establish a precedent by swearing in a Senator for the first time outside the Senate Chamber. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite, had been ill with influenza and complications since before March 4. He lay in a hospital bed in Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana...
...afternoon for any particular purpose. Furthermore, a person, under the present system, can be in the middle of a difficult chemistry experiment that has required much careful preparation, only to be told at five o'clock that he must leave and within about a five minute margin...
Coach Haines' second heavy crew had a two length lead over his third eight at the finish line, which in turn led the second Tech Freshmen by an equal margin, the winner covering the mile course in 5 minutes, 45 seconds...
Five successive safeties in the seventh inning gave the Crimson forces three runs and an indisputable margin. Prior's triple, a beautiful drive to deep right, was the only extra base blow among them. Gilligan got his third hit of the day in this frame. The Crimson sluggers were retired in order in the eighth. McGrath and Donaghy lifted long flies to left, while Ticknor struck...
...three-quarter length margin, the University crew stroked by P.H. Watts '31 yesterday repeated its victory of Saturday afternoon over crew X, stroked by S.W. Swaim '31, in a closely fought contest over the Basin course...