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Harvard university gives its students a period of freedom before each siege of examinations. There collegians have a few weeks to interpret factual knowledge, catch up on recommended reading, tack unrelated courses together. A pre-examination study period allows time for study when a student is mentally set for learning. Minnesota Daily, Friday, March...
Deflated, Lawyer Johnston tried a new tack, began telling the Court how the late Federal District Judge William I. Grubb had upheld his side of the case on its first hearing. This time Mr. Justice McReynolds broke in: "It would help if you would tell who brought the suit...
Upset, Solicitor Reed pulled himself together and tried a new tack: The Court ought not to decide on the Bankhead Act because the record of the case did not cover all the points which should be considered for such an important decision. Again questions, right & left, from the Bench. Suddenly Solicitor Reed went ashen in the face, stammered, "I ask the Court's indulgence. I ... I ... am too ill to proceed...
...another tack? Forget Roosevelt, Maltbie,* Lehman, Mack...
...hand. They inspected the maintenance fund, found only $505.23. Unless students were to catch pneumonia, they figured, the University would have to close in ten days. For half a year they had been trying vainly to arouse the public to the predicament of a cashless University. A new tack was clearly indicated. Presently in the Ohio State Journal appeared a doleful story pointing out that if the Uni-versity stopped functioning, so would the football team...