Word: candis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton men do not know John Gale Hun, who conducts in Princeton a school for young children, another school for "cramming" college entrance candi dates, and a third for "cramming" under graduates. So aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton...
...complicated system whereby candi dates are elected on a fixed quota of votes any surplus going to the second choice in- dicated by the elector, who has as many choices as there are candidates in his constituency...
There were nearly a dozen candidates in the field and the interest centered on the Republican contest, in which four aspirants were entered. Those four were: Robert M. LaFollette Jr., running on his father's platform; Roy Porter Wilcox, onetime state senator, candi- date of the Republican state organization, Francis E. McGovern, former Governor (1911-15) running on a compromise Coolidge-La Fol- lette platform; and Daniel Woodward, "Coolidge-Dawes" candidate with Ku Klux support...
Equipment was given to the candi- dates after the meeting, and the squad went out to the field to receive preliminary instructions from Mitchell. Later the men engaged in light batting and hurling practice...
...Spring passes into Summer, it becomes more and more apparent that American business will not really get its bearings until the political conventions are over, and until the results of the Fall's election as far as they will affect trade can be intelligently fore cast. With the Democratic candi date still unknown, both "platforms" yet unannounced, and the seriousness of La Follette's third party gesture not clearly determined, a tone of hesitation in the markets is quite natural...