Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the Better Element having forgotten it was in politics, and "the town" being weary of her welldoing, Mrs. Landes was defeated for re-election by Frank Edwards, a retired Seattle showman. This time the Mayor-elect's margin was 19,000 votes...
...History, Government and Economics, takes precedence over the experiment of the Departments of Geology and Biology. The eyes of all to whom the tutorial system is important, and particularly of the faculty heads of the Departments of Physics and Chemistry, will focus on those Freshmen who this month elect geology or biology as their field of concentration...
George Collins, soccer editor of the "Boston Globe" and manager of the Olympic soccer team of four years ago, will be the guest of the team and the principal speaker of the evening. Coach Jack Kershaw and Captain-elect A. M. Stollmeyer '30 will also address the meeting...
Frank D. Boynton of Ithaca, N. Y., president-elect of the N. E. A. department of superintendence: "President Lowell seems to think that the main function of the American high school is to send its pupils to college. . . . Our objective is not to train a chosen few for higher education, but to prepare all our students for American conditions of life. . . . The, only tests which the colleges use in determining the fitness of a boy are intellectual tests. ... A Leopold or a Loeb could pass them easily...
...Iselin '30, captain-elect of next year's squash team, captured the Canadian squash racquets chamionship Saturday by defeating A. Martin of the Thistle Club of Hamilton, Ontario, 15-11, 7-15, 11-15, 15-6, 15-8, in the finals of the tournament held in Toronto over the week...