Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restless Northwest, the chances of a Progressive-Democratic sweep were lessened when Senators Frazier of North Dakota and Howell of Nebraska, both very vaguely Republican, decided to campaign as Hooverites despite the opposite action of their Progressive and Farmer-Labor comrades in Minnesota and Wisconsin...
...have just returned from a trip to Washington, D. C.," he continued, "and the opinion there is that several of the Middle Atlantic states such as Virginia, North Carolina, and West Virginia have gone over quite definitely to Hoover, Maryland, however, will probably remain Democratic...
...wonders a little whether Dean McConn of Lehigh is not trying a little too hard to see exclusively out of the rose colored half of his bifocals. In a recent article in the North American Review he vigorously applauds the decision among hosts of undergraduates to devote only a compulsory minimum of time to their studies and lavish the remainder upon outside activities. He makes the plausible statement that the prepondering majority of college students have not the capacity to pursue bookish knowledge. Certainly there is support for this view, but there is also an increasing body of evidence that...
Chicago. Wearing a pair of socks monogrammed across the shin with his name, "because one of my friends in North Carolina gave them to me"; jostled, huzzahed, jeered, cheered, gaped at, the Nominee spent three days in pandemonstrative Chicago. Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon drew a picture in the Chicago Tribune of an elephant looking down from a window on the crowd-banked Smith parade, and saying: "It's lucky for me that eagerness to see him doesn't mean eagerness to vote for him." That night the crowds burned bonfires of Chicago Tribunes in the middle of Michigan...
Scattered here and there in the simple sun parlor of a private house the first students began to learn their Christian duties of citizenship. The next year, an uncompleted hotel at Claremont, three miles north of Pomona, was given to the college and the students were assembled. In 1894, 47 students were graduated. It soon became difficult to cling to the ideal of a small college. Nevertheless Pomona firmly shut its doors yearly in the face of all but 750 students. But if there were two colleges? Later, perhaps, three? On the coast of the Pacific another Oxford, a group...