Word: masses
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Democrats at Harvard were hardly so volatile as their opponents. In 1888, for instance, there were 650 Republicans and 493 Democrats. The backers of Benjamin Harrison held a mass rally in Tremont Temple, Boston, with Edward Everett Hale, 1839, as chairman and ex-Governors George Robinson and John Long, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, '71, as speakers. Three days later a three-gun salute sparked the big march for Harrison. But as for the Democrats, what was apparently their only campaign activity was listed by the CRIMSON as follows: "G. S. Howe '89 speaks tonight at a democratic (sic) rally...
Recommendation for a library checking system is hanging in the balance today as a 295 to 294 vote in favor of the plan was cast, with six ballots still outstanding. The controversial issue was hotly debated at the recent "Cliffe mass meeting, but the final decision will be up to the faculty no matter what the outcome of the vote...
President Truman took his share of punishment too. A visit by candidate Dewey to Boston brought out both Harvard and Radcliffe students in a torchlight parade and cheering section at the Arena mass meeting, while Professor Charles R. Cherington attacked the Democratic party in his debate with Beer at a Politics Club meeting...
Radcliffe assembles at 1:10 p.m. today in Agassiz Theater for the year's first Student Government mass meeting...
...vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel is that any mass of human beings can ever achieve a single, united aim, such as victory...