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...only partisan Democrats, but many others who are interested in national politics, will flock to the New Lecture Hall between 7 and 8 o'clock tonight and enroll as delegates in the mock convention being held by the Harvard Democratic Club. They will find awaiting them all the thrills of the Madison Square gathering of 1924. In collegiate miniature: speeches which let the eagle scream, parading delegates, contested votes, songs and flags and pictures of famous Democrats. If the convention follows the two models upon which it is based the regular Democratic. Convention and the mock convention held at Harvard...
John Wilson Snook (warden of the Atlanta penitentiary) selected from his flock a new chauffeur-Josiah Kirby, famed swindler of Cleveland, Ohio, who is serving a seven-year term for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Mr. Kirby's Cleveland Discount Co. had dealt in mischievous mortgages to the extent of more than...
Charlie Paddock still continues to break records after reaching what seems a ripe old age for an athlete and big league managers do not hesitate to trade a flock of rookies for one veteran player, but in one sport at least youth will come into its won this year. The Davis Cup team as announced for the first matches with Mexico on April 6 marks the coming of another generation in the game. After holding the cup in America for years, the famous trio of Tilden, Johnson and Williams have dwindled to but one, and Tilden alone must head...
...difficulties with which we have had to contend from the first. Sympathy and enthusasm is all right in its place but should not be too ostentatious. This evil extends to the undergraduates, and our earnest workers are greatly bothered by crowds of curious sightseers that flock across the river from the Yard at all times...
...compulsory chapel and the "religious hangover" found in some ecclesiastical colleges. It would be folly to deny the absence among college undergraduates of any very real religious certitude, of the variety dealt out by pious Sunday School teachers: it is, however, not to be assumed at once that students flock unthinking after the frequently flickering electric torch of Science. Theories are born, have their being, and die in rapid tempo: the ideas set down as dogmas in a scientific textbook "brought up to the minute" a decade ago are a laughingstock now. The actual accomplishments of Science are tangible enough...