Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whether the ballots were exactly alike, and not distinguished from each other by colour or in some other way, whether people voted in the same booths for both candidates, these and similar "details" are not known. Yet without such details it is impossible to say whether the elections were free...
Hartwell, who had already captured the diving, found no competition in the 200-yard free style, and walked away from his opponents in the fast time of 2 minutes 45 seconds. Second place saw a real struggle, with A. L. Mason '32 barely defeating H. L. Lash '32. The second free style contest, the 50-yard race, was, on the other hand, extremely tight; W. R. Timken '32 nosed out J. E. Ashworth '32 and L. M. Patterson '32, not a yard separating these three. Timken won his second first place of the afternoon in the 100-yard free style...
What happened to the Crimson, so free from "The stress and competition of the business world"? On October 23, Time, in an editorial, commented unfavorably on the North Carolina Game, and next day the Crimson rushed to the defense with a lead editorial entitled, "The Sneer and the Yellow Sheet." On February 8, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts, writing for the Saturday Evening Post, made merry at Harvard's expense, and once more the Crimson responded nobly. Where was the Crimson on March 1; on that day, the New York World under the title, "More Sacco-Vanzetti Evidence", printed grave charges...
Incidentally, even the Crimson is not so free from "The stress of competition of the business world." On February 28, there appeared a half page advertisement of the University Theatre featuring signed testimonials from several editors. It is rumored that each editor received forty dollars for this act of kindness...
...concert is open free of charge to all officers and students of the University. Tickets can be purchased by the public at $1.25 each at Amee Brothers Bookstore, 21 Brattle Street...