Word: platform
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...frankly, what reason is there for anyone to become indignant at this lack of interest? Under the present system of choosing officers it is inevitable. The candidates stand for no platform, there are no conflicting issues, so that the prospective voter is not able to choose an officer because of what he represents. Nor may he be guided by some one man's special fitness for the office, because almost any man would be able to discharge suitably the not onerous duties of a class officer. So the whole matter becomes one of friendship. Only a man's personal friends...
...below the railroad bridge on which the observation train is to run. The New York, New haven, and Hartford officials fear that, unless the course is changed, an accident might occur owing to the tendency of the onlookers in the train to lean too far out over the observation platform railing. At a conference held yesterday between the officials of the railroad and the Rowing Committees of the two universities, the proposed change was discussed. Whether the 150 feet in question will be cut off the end of the course without making up the distance or whether the start will...
Undergraduate publications are becoming the craze. For now the thrilling news comes to our ears that there is to be a new college daily. The Harvard Magazine has come out with its second platform; the first for increased salaries for instructors, and the second a "new daily to fight the Crime." Yet we are unable to ascertain whether the Harvard Magazine wishes to combat the CRIMSON, or whether it has merely been induced to espouse this new cause of the unknown proposers of the Harvard Daily. The complaints against the CRIMSON, undoubtedly supplied by the threatening journalists, have been enumerated...
Approximately 3200 persons filled Symphony Hall last evening to its fullest capacity for three and a half intense hours while President Lowell debated against Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71 on the League of Nations. The two speakers came on the platform a few minutes after eight o'clock, amidst great applause. Governor Calvin Coolidge was the presiding officer...
...similarity between the two men makes their appearance as opponents on the same platform all the more pertinent. Both members of old Massachusetts families, graduates of Harvard College and the Law School, well versed in questions of government and international relations, they have every reason for thinking in common. That two such men should differ on a matter of such transcending national consequence doubles the importance of their meeting tonight. It will be a battle royal...