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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that the La Follette-Wheeler Club of Harvard has made its campaign headquarters in Apthorp House has caused much disturbance among its occupants. Those who align themselves with the older, and, they claim, more respectable, parties, contend that Apthorp house, the home of so many old Tory traditions, is not the place for the most progressive, and radical party to locate itself...
Believing a large part of the membership of the present Harvard Republican and Democratic clubs to be leaning toward La Follette at this time, the new club voted to accept for the next five days as members only ex-members of one of the two older political clubs. After Saturday the club membership will be thrown open to the entire University and anyone may join. In the debate on this measure on the floor of the meeting it was freely predicted that dozens of members could be drawn from either of the other clubs with slight effort...
Declaring that it would be a national tragedy to elect a man whose party was mixed up in the oil scandals as was President Coolidge's, Professor Skinner of Tufts College, preceding the business meeting, flayed the older parties and painted a glowing picture of La Follette as the "men of the hour". He stated that like MacDonald in England, La Follette was the most despised man in the country during the war but was looked to now as the only progressive leader on the horizon whom the liberal forces of the country could follow...
...Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, named after America's "first scientist," celebrated the 100th anniversary of its birth. In attendance were 700 scientists representing 200 universities and other scientific institutions. Many of the older universities of the world sent birthday greetings by their representatives. They included...
...origin of cretin is traced by some to the French chrétien, meaning "Christian," hence "innocent." The Latin Christianus, again, was probably a translation of the older cretin, from crete (craie), a. chalky fuller's earth found in Crete, used by the Romans for coloring the face, especially by actors. A common mark of cretinism is a sallow, yellow earthy complexion...