Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly likely that any book on New York's governor, written by Franklin D. Roosevelt, at this particular time will escape the classification, usually opprobrious of "campaign literature." Still this book, given these conditions, comes very close to being something else...
...case. Her husband, Powers' Hapgood '21, is also interested in the Socialist movement and together they have helped in the organization of miners in the Pennsylvania coal fields. Mrs. Hapgood returned to Massachusetts from Pennsylvania during the spring, and since that time has been actively engaged in conducting her campaign...
Recent efforts to tear apart the shrouds which have surrounded the political clubs hereabouts serve only to emphasise the trance in which most of these organizations repose throughout the college experience of most of the student body. Every four years the adrenalin of a presidential campaign causes faint stirrings in the Harvard body-politic which feed the hopes of those gathered about the bier and which may be the signal for rejoicing, accompanied by the beating of tomtoms. Invariably and unfortunately the patient after a few inconsequential stirrings relapses into his former harmlessness...
Valuable as the political clubs may be in bringing the campaign to the college for a short time every fourth fall, they give no solid assistance to the college man baffled by his first voting opportunity, Really to cast one's vote intelligently, one should follow party issues from far before the time that they become mere political slogans. Enthusiastic attendance at last minute discussions and oratorical contests is hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control...
...permanent. So far this year, he has been tried out at center and guard, but not with much success. O'Connell's stead rise since his shift to the end squad would seem to point to his holding down one of the wing posts during the fall campaign. During the workout, special emphasis was placed on the aerial attack, short as well as long passes being used...