Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Democratic National Committee chose Houston, Tex., last week for its 1928 convention city, it was really the choice of a solid North, calculating to coax an uncertain South. San Francisco, Detroit and Cleveland were eager bidders. Houston won, with a small auditorium and ominous late-June climate, for three reasons...
Houston, Tex. Houston will be hot. Houston will be humid. On June 26, Houston mosquitoes will be hungry. At a National Democratic Convention, tempers run short even oftener than monies. The Moody-boosting for Vice President will probably die down next week as lightly as it sprang up last week after Governor Moody's appearance in Washington...
Football on the grand scale receives its annual vindication in the report of the Treasurer of Harvard University for the twelve months ending June 30, 1927. Without the gate receipts of the leading fall pastime, the remaining organized sports of the University as well as the facilities for individual exercise, would incure a loss of some $320,000; ergo, the most valid raison d'etre for intercollegiate football in its present form. Regardless of all the other merits of the problem, the money making potentiality of football, necessary as it is in the absence of any other means of supporting...
...place where the Freshmen are to meet their Advisers, the summer address of each Adviser, and other related matters. Each Adviser is also requested to send in before July 1 the names of any Freshmen whom, for any reason, he would like to advice. Early in June all printed matter, for the coming academic year is, so far as possible, prepared. This relates chiefly to various form-letters to both Advisers and Freshmen, and blanks for admission records. July, August, and September are very busy months in the office of the Board of Freshman Advisers, as it is necessary...
...Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Freshman Week all Freshmen admitted in June who do not know their Faculty Advisers come to the office of the chairman. These did not return the blank sent to them in August because of their failure to receive it; because of their absence from home on a summer vacation; or because of carelessness. There is a surprisingly large number of such cases. These men are given a fresh blank which they fill out, and the chairman assignes them to an Adviser before they leave the office. There are also a good many men who have...