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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened with ceremony last week at Amherst, Mass., college men everywhere pricked up their ears, hearing fond echoes in the very name. The inn, of an old English design, facing the village green, was not a part of the Amherst college plant, but Amherst alumni thronged to join the celebration. President George Daniel Olds of Amherst made a speech. President Harry A. Garfield had come over from Williams College and he made another speech. Mr. George A. Plimpton, senior trustee of Amherst, exhibited his remarkable collection of Amherst memorabilia-portraits, autographs, prints, cartoons, maps and even original broadsides...
...Future. Normally a Republican nomination in Pennsylvania is as good as an election. This time there is, however, the possibility that Pinchot will bolt the Republican ticket either to run as an independent or to join forces with the Democrats who nominated William B. Wilson (Secretary of Labor under the President of the same surname). In any event it will take an heroic effort if a Republican nominee is to be beaten in Pennsylvania...
...many myriads have seen and heard and known George Wilham Mundelein. They have seen him as a Manhattan?? boy undecided whether to enter the army (his grandfather was the first Union soldier killed at Fort Sumter in the prelude to the Civil War) or to join the Catholic priesthood. They have known him at work in the Diocese of Brooklyn and in Chicago. They have heard his eloquence (he speaks several languages). They know ms gestures, his habit of forgetting names...
Alumni of the University do not require tickets for themselves, since they are entitled to join the President's procession. In this procession, the alumni will take their places in order of seniority. The older alumni will during the Commencement exercises, have places set apart for them upon the platform. The younger members of the alumni-will have seats reserved for them elsewhere. Due however, to the rather limited number of places, it may be necessary for some of the graduates to stand...
...Theatre, and different tickets will be required, as "Quadrangle tickets" do not admit to the Theatre. Because of the small size of Sanders Theatre, the number of those who may attend the presentation of degrees will be very much reduced. Only alumni of at least 25 years' standing may join the procession, while younger graduates and non-graduating students will not be admitted. The Sanders Theatre tickets will be distributed to those eligible to receive them at the same time that the tickets of admission to Sever Quadrangle are sent...