Word: attender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican Party owed thanks to Chauncey Depew from its inception. He stumped for its first candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856, and attended every Republican convention from 1860 to 1920. All the Presidents from Lincoln to Harding knew him well. In 1888, he himself received 99 votes for the nomination, but withdrew in favor of Harrison, who later asked him to be Secretary of State. He declined, having the presidency of the New York Central R. R. to attend to. In 1899 he entered the Senate, but his two terms were chiefly sociable. Politics, with him, was a sideline. Business...
Preliminary replies to invitations to the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs indicate that the number of graduates attending the meeting in Philadelphia on May 17, 18, and 19 will be larger than in previous years. Nearly 1900 members of the various clubs have expressed then interest and a desire to attend...
Dean G. H. Chase '96, toastmaster for the evening, read telegrams from G. C. Huggins '01, former graduate secretary, and T. N. Pointer, Yale '29, president of the Dwight Hall Association, at their inability to attend and wished the Future success of the House...
...even though he will not perhaps be regaled with the same humor in hearing about his life and position in literature, nevertheless the Vagabond intends to attend Professor Murdock's lecture on Mark Twain at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard...
...Shooting the chutes, riding on the scenic railway and going to the daisy-doser in the amusement park supply the necessary prods to children. The modern newspaper performs this function for the adult of higher mental level. . . . We cannot possibly attend all the murders, fires, earthquakes, unsuccessful trans-atlantic flights and other occurrences of the kind in person. The modern newspaper does this for us and thus saves our consciousness from 'innocuous desuetude...