Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fencers' Club will hold a dinner at 7 o'clock tonight at the Harvard Club of Boston to elect new members and discuss plans for the coming season. The discussion will be informal, with speeches by Dean E. R. Gay '19, Coach J. L. Dauguy, and Captain E. H. Lane...
Immediately after the regular rehearsal on Tuesday, December 12, there will be a Glee Club smoker at 8.15 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union; Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will speak. After the smoker there will be a club meeting to elect new members. Last year's financial report, will be read, and plans for the coming year discussed...
Following the example of the Hotel Exposition, it is rumored that the annual convention of the Milling Association will elect the national flour. With the aid of the radio this rumor was broadcasted throughout the land. The convention's judiciary committee has been deluged with recommendations from local granges and Audubon societies. So far, from forty-eight states and one territory (Guam), forty-nine suggestions have been received. The ylang-ylang was Guam's choice for the national flour, while that of Massachusetts was the dandelion. Apparently the radio, being audible and not visible, has mixed flower with flour...
...quote from Auslander, who is acting editor for the present quarter: "In order that the editorship shall not be one-sided, the nine poets who founded the magazine . . . elect an acting editor quarterly and give him power of life and death over submitted poems. . . . We are all somewhat tired of Whitmanesque mock heroics and bangwhanging; tired of stereotyped rhymes and consolations; tired of seven-day reputations stuffed with bran and hung with cowbells...
...election becomes especially significant when we consider that it is the custom in Scottish universities for the student body itself to elect its Lord Rector. Lord Birkenhead, campaigning on the Unionist ticket, received 1,165 votes while Mr. H. G. Wells, as the Labor candidate, received only 353 votes. The result is indicative: whatever other changes England faces at the moment--its University men stand predominantly Conservative...