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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political enthusiasm reached its highest pitch last night when Senator Carter Glass of Virginia was nominated on the seventh ballot of the mock Democratic convention. A crowd of several hundred students thronged the main floor while the gallery was lined with professors and other interested spectators. Shouts, cries, cat-calls and cheers echoed from all parts of the New Lecture Hall when the different favorite sons were vote...
Several hundred enthusiastic Democrats made the New Lecture Hall resound with noise at the opening of the mock National Convention last night From the singing of the Star Spangled Banner to the end of the session, the delegates voiced their approval or disapproval in no uncertain terms and the interest of the speeches and balloting held the whole assembly tense for over three hours...
...That the mock Democratic Convention last night was "something well worth doing and an evidence of the keen and serious political interest in the student body was the opinion of Professors W. E. Hocking 01 and J. L. Conger who listened to the entire meeting. They both claimed immunity, however, from the questions of the CRIMSON reporter, saying that it was fortunately, a student affair...
When the last plank in the platform has been nailed down, and the successful candidate has been forwarded a telegram of congratulation signed by the mock electorate in too, the nights' rest of these harassed statesmen should be slightly more recuperative than it has in the past. Although the decision of this Convention on Governor Smith's chances of carrying the arid west and the possibility of Mr. McAdoo's removing enough oil stains to be presentable will have no effect on the actions of the real Convention, it will provide a sort of search light with which acute minds...
...entire New Lecture Hall will be used by the mock Democratic National Convention tomorrow and Wednesday night, with the delegates on the main floor, the campaign committees in the class rooms and the audience in the balcony...