Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the team that has been picked to face Princeton files on to the platform in the Living Room of the Union at 7.15 o'clock tonight, 1500 students are expected to rock the building with their cheers for the University eleven. The first mass meeting of the year is expected to find the Harvard student body behind its team, undiscouraged by the fact that the Crimson is regarded as the underdog. A year ago Princeton filled that role and what Princeton did to Harvard will not soon be forgotten. Memories of that contest will evoke the spirit of revenge...
...Meeting at Worcester, Mass., the American Antiquarian Society celebrated the acquisition of 3,821 bound volumes, 9,755 pamphlets and 1,137 engravings, broadsides and maps, and also elected Calvin Coolidge to membership in its learned ranks. Other U. S. Presidents who have been members of the Society: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson...
...England was worried about the attitude of China, which seemed to favor Germany. One day there came to my desk a mass of material taken from German prisoners and dead soldiers. In it were two pictures, one showing a train taking dead horses to the rear so that fat and other things needed for fertilizer and munitions might be obtained from them; and the other showing a train taking dead Germans to the rear for burial. On the picture showing the horses was the word 'Cadaver...
...Navy officials, visiting last fortnight at Gloucester, Mass., were treated to a demonstration remarkable even in this radio age. In the laboratory of John Hays Hammond Jr., they beheld that young wizard (aged 37) transmit eight radio messages simultaneously upon a single ether wave and receive them again, all separate and distinct, using single sending and receiving instruments at both ends of his operation...
...those who are interested only in the grand problems of the universe and this, its man infested planet, a tiny riot in a university is no more than froth on a minute wave of trouble. But to the legions who mass themselves within the halls of learning oven such a petty turmoil has its interest. Even an occasional son of Harvard, fresh returned from divisional examinations, may question the judgments of the lesser gods. But whatever powers exist in what some more caustic critics have termed Caves, need not be too alarmed by the rude murmurs heard about the streets...