Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plank favoring American intrance into the League of Nations and World Court without reservation, featured the first session of the mock Democratic convention held last night in the New Lecture Hall. The convention will come to order tonight at 7.30 o'clock, and finish its work of adopting a platform and nominating candidates...
...convention will probably last two nights. Tonight the chief features of the program will be the keynote and nomination speeches, the adoption of a platform, and the first ballots for a Presidential candidate. Strong opposition to the nomination of Governor Smith has made itself felt in the Harvard Democratic ranks, and an intense and prolonged contest may result. A hot struggle is likely tonight over the prohibition plank in the platform...
...interest in public questions and a keen desire to do their part in the political life of the nation brought the members of the Democratic Club together. Their convention tonight and tomorrow will be a jovial and lively climax to months of serious discussion and earnest work and the platform which is adopted will be the chief fruit of their labors. It will be a sincere expression of the opinions of Harvard's politically minded, progressively inclined students...
...rough mile and three quarters of the Charles River to nose out M. I. T. by a quarter of a length. And on other rivers other crews were practicing, watched by critics who every season go from college to college, watching workouts from launches or from the boathouse platform. Other commentators, believing that things in rowing, more than in any other sport, are decided by training methods, considered the theories and personalities of the various coaches. Most discussed last week was Edward O. Leader (Yale), gruff and domineering, who has built his crew out of meagre material. A week before...
...mock Democratic Convention will open at 7 o'clock tomorrow night at the New Lecture Hall, with all members of the University eligible to participate. A platform will be adopted and candidates for President and Vice-President nominated, the balloting starting tonight, with a possibility of the convention meeting Wednesday evening to complete its work...