Word: platform
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...popular favor, and from ambition to rise from the masses. He wanted distinction, power, and wanted it while he was alive. Did he, then, put political sincerity and integrity aside in his thirst for fame? That he wavered in his choice of parties, that he completely reversed his platform, aroused suspicions on this score. Yet he was less inconsistent than Peel and Gladstone; he was in constant sympathy with the people, as is shown by the tenor of the laws which he urged, and he invariably appears as the great and public spirited statesman...
...chief speakers will be Captain Storer and Coach Haughton. The latter will give a talk on the fine points of football, which will be illustrated by lantern slides showing some of the plays in the big games of the past season. The team will sit on the platform as the guests of honor, and the affair will be enlivened by singing and cheering. A. F. Pickernell '14 and E. Streeter '14 have composed lyrics to popular tunes especially for this occasion. A. F. Pickernell '14 and J. R. O. Perkins '14 will entertain with amusing dialogues and S. Adams...
...celebration, which will be held in the Living Room. He will introduce, among other speakers, Captain Storer and Coach Haughton, who will give an illustrated talk on football, dealing especially with the big games of this season. The team will be present and will sit on the platform. Cheering and songs will add to the gaiety of the occasion, and both graduates and undergraduates will be given an opportunity to show their spirit and enthusiasm...
...meet for the class championship, and cups will be presented to the members of the winning team. The interclass debates serve as an excellent training for the triangular series in the spring and offer an opportunity for a number of men to get actual practice in speaking on the platform. Last year, all three f the men on the winning class team inter made the University debating team, one as regular and two as alternates...
...building itself, the report remarks upon the changes on the ground floor where the large lecture hall has been split up by a semi-circular wall into a smaller lecture room capable of holding about 205 people, with a raised platform at the back suitable for the exhibition of large casts; and a semicircular corridor outside the lecture room, for the exhibition of other casts. This adds materially to the exhibition space in the Museum, and makes it possible to separate the casts and the original works of art. These are the principal improvements, though other minor ones have been...