Word: electives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prague Castle's gothic, spidery Ladislaus Hall last week the 420 Deputies and Senators of Czechoslovakia's parliament met to elect a President by secret ballot. The secrecy was unnecessary because all the world knew what the result would be. For the fourth successive time gentle white-chinned Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and only President of Czechoslovakia, was overwhelmingly elected. Today President Masaryk is 84; if he lives out his fourth term he will...
President-elect Lowell and President Eliot were cheered yesterday at the thirteenth annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. A great deal depended on the graduates' impression of him since so much support and influence comes to Harvard from the Middle-West...
Senator Norris of Nebraska was making an impassioned appeal to the Senate in behalf of his Constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and elect Presidents and Vice Presidents by direct popular vote. At the climax of his speech he addressed the Chair, extending his hand in a dramatic gesture, denying categorically that such an amendment would favor any political party, would serve any end save the true purposes of democracy. Then he sat down amid a hush...
...everybody with a clean shirt went to some kind of ball. The Elks Club gave a ball for Elks. The Catholic Club gave a ball for Catholics. The Rex-Ridgeway Club gave a ball for Jews. The Memphis Country Club and the Nineteenth Century Club gave balls for the elect...
These men were named to supplement those who were elected last week by the two classes. The entire Council will meet in the Faculty room on Wednesday evening to elect officers for the coming year...