Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cheek Jr. '26, captain-elect of the football team, and J. L. Knox '95, coach of the Second University team, will be the speakers at a meeting of all football candidates to be held at the Varsity Club next Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock...
...appal epigram. In Manhattan are other artists, less dined. These read, in the Metropolitan press, of Zuloaga's feedings, of his exhibition. They read that 40,000 people had visited the exhibition, that $100,000 worth of pictures had been sold on the opening day,* that the Governor-elect of Massachusetts had insisted on Mr. Zuloaga's selling him a little picture for $35,000, that the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh had bought another...
Some ladies in a play by William Congreve decided that they would elect to membership in their female club, for decorum's sake, one single man. They therefore enrolled two well known dandies. Witty were these ladies; they knew, indirectly, something of the relationship of talent to genius. It takes, for example, many good fiddlers to make a great one. The Flonzaleys play excellently well, yet if the alacrity of their 40 fingers were compressed into a single hand, if the sweetness that shakes from their four wooden boxes were in a single tone, only then would their plural...
...strange how little stir is made in this country over the election of a President. The people make a great fuss and a hullabaloo about going to the polls in November and electing 531 citizens, mostly nobodies, who never make or administer. But when, in January, these 531 "nobodies" assemble in little groups here and there and elect the President of the U. S. for four years to come, the people know little of it and care less. So little interest attends the event that it is some weeks before the ballots are assembled and counted...
Members of the Class of 1926 who are planning to attend the affair should get together as soon as possible in congenial groups of 6 or 12 couples and apply for a box to R. H. Dyer '26. Such groups should elect chairmen to have charge of the arrangement of the box for the dance. This year there will be no boxes on the balcony at Memorial, and the boxes on the main floor will probably be assigned...