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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes were thus instructed for Smith. Two days later, Connecticut added her 14 to the Smith list, making it 541½ first-ballot votes. With such pro-Smith States as Maryland, New Jersey, Wyoming and Vermont yet to be heard from, and reserve Smith strength at hand from at least two Favorite Sons (Ohio's Pomerene, Nebraska's Hitchcock), the rush for the brown derby counter seemed so well under way that Smith men tried to talk down their earlier talk of acclaiming Candidate Smith on the first ballot at Houston. It would look just as much like...
...said he only wished Mr. Walsh had withdrawn "before he muddied the water." Candidate Reed pictured himself as "a General in a war" and said he would not surrender because he had lost a "skirmish." He men tioned "great issues" and said: "The convention at Houston will at least have a chance to vote on them...
...over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren. Newsgatherers tasted real Virginia applejack. None had a more gladsome time than his suave and swarthy excellency, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., who, with Mme. Samy, had been warmly persuaded to attend. His Excellency enjoyed himself, at least, until Mrs. Francis M. Reynolds, a member of the ceremonial committee, spying the portly dark-complected Samy Pasha in his place of honor on a school-house porch, requested him to depart. She did not "want him around," said Mrs. Reynolds. Insulted, Samy Pasha and his party returned to their...
This will be a more important Reading Period in at least one way. The chances that startling confirmatory evidence, dwarfing that of last February, will be offered are slim. But the mechanics of the Reading Period are in greatly improved condition. Reading lists that were delayed in appearance, some of them almost into the Period itself, this spring have been put in the hands of the student in good season. And the lists are less indicative of either of two extreme evaluations of the student's capacity for reading than were their Yuletide issues...
...expected of the second Reading Period is that it should render to its authors results of equal conclusiveness with those of the first Reading Period. Statistics are not the most strong exidence in its favor. Perhaps the most definite mark of its firm establishment is present in the least definite phenomenon at Harvard--student opinion. Perhaps it was in Cambridge first, as now, that silence in matters of great moment became known as token of assent...