Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...president, G. B. Blaine '17, outlined the plans for the fall campaign. One of the events on the program will be the large mass meeting which will take place the latter part of this month, at which it is expected Senator Lodge will speak. The final wind up of the campaign will be the parade of the Young Republicans of Boston on the night before elections, in which the Republican Club will take part...
...Fraternity Council has proposed several new regulations for controlling the admission of freshmen to membership. It is desired to put the whole system entirely on an honor basis. The penalties for the infringement of rules will be made more severe and will be under the control of an undergraduate campaign discipline committee. There will also be a faculty discipline committee made up of three members of the faculty elected unanimously by the undergraduate campaign discipline committee...
...Capture of Combles Ends Brilliant Campaign," was the headline The Charleston News and Courier placed over its account of that Franco-British victory. The phraseology gives one a start, but it is quite correct; this war has altered the meaning of words old as the language. It was a campaign for the possession of Combles; and this campaign was an incident of what? The battle of the Somme. What was a battle before this extraordinary war began? An incident in a campaign. What is a campaign now? An incident of a battle...
...battle was formerly a thing of hours and a few square miles; it took its name from a town, and sometimes, when no town was near, from some handy object, Chrysler's Farm, Gaines' Mill, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh Church. Now a battle is what a campaign used to be, a thing of months, stretching over an expanse of territory, the course of a river, perhaps a province. The battle of Champagne, the battle of Bukowina, the battle of the Dobrudja, are already historic names. In one such battle, as that of the Somme, there may be many small campaigns...
...Wilson Club will hold a meeting in the Trophy Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. The speakers will be Michael A. O'Leary, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Committee, and George W. Anderson, United States district attorney. Plans will be drawn up for the fall campaign and all graduates and undergraduates of the University who are supporters of President Wilson are invited to attend...