Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no war, and Tyler's patient negotiation contrasted with Lincoln's conduct, who with the dissolution of the Union staring him in the face made no attempt, as President-elect, to aid Tyler's peace efforts as Virginia Commissioner to Buchanan and as President of the Peace Convention. After Lincoln's inauguration his mind appeared in a kind of maze. He signed important papers without reading them, and while refusing to see the Confederate Commissioners, suffered them to tarry in Washington, where they were fed with all sorts of promises by Seward, his Secretary...
Captain J. H. Lane '28, E. J. W. Danielson '29, J. C. Dreier '28, H. L. Ellison '28, R. C. Glenn '30, J. R. Harper '28, Captain-elect Hartnett, R. L. Hatch '28, Ira Markwett '28, A. H. B. McGuire '30, C. D. McQuaid '28, A. M. Murphy '29, O. E. Mulliken '28, S. P. Park '29, F. A. Pickard '29, H. L. Porter '28, W. J. Salmon '30, H. B. Sanders '30, J. J. Stenberg '28, H. D. Stone '28, H. J. Wallace '28, Manager J. O. Wilson...
...Come, gentlemen, do the handsome thing! Elect Mr. Slocum to the society, and send him the biggest golden key that locksmiths can make...
...Cummings '30, W. M. Dow '29, Leslie Flaksman '29, A. E. French '29, David Guarnaccia '29, R. G. Luttman '29, T. G. Moore '29, R. H. O'Connell '30. W. C. Peet '28, R. P. Porter '29, J. W. Potter '30, C. A. Pratt '28, Captain elect Reid, G. I. Shapiro '28, G. A. Tupper '29, and J. O. Wildes '29. Of these men Alcock, P. S. Brown, S. E. Brown, Brayton, Cummings, Dow, Mason, O'Connell, and Potter received letters for track for the first time...
They also voted to give Methodists in foreign lands the power to elect their own bishops, thus settling a long vexed question in the church. No sooner was the overwhelming vote recorded than cheers and joyful shouts, mingled with hymn-singing reverberated inside Convention Hall. When the tumult subsided, Bishop Fred B. Fisher, of Calcutta, India, said: "Never have I witnessed a more wonderful session. . . . Methodism faces...