Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Breaking a traditional policy which has limited Freshman debating contests to one triangular debate with Yale and Princeton in the spring, the Harvard Debating Council is responding to invitations from other colleges for Freshman debates, and will send Freshman teams onto the platform against Boston College, Temple, Tufts, William and Mary, Princeton, and Yale. Coincident with the extension of the Freshman schedule, a 1931 debating club will be formed to train Freshman for the league debates, and an organization meeting will be held in the Smith Halls Common Room Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock...
Among the prominent Republicans who have been invited to speak before the club is Vice President Charles G. Dawes, who may come here next month to discuss the G. O. P. platform...
When on Commencement mooring the Sheriff of Middlesex Country comes slowly forward in front of the platform, pounds his aword three times up on the boards, and says "The assembly will now come to order," a distinct odor of the past pervades the impromptu behind Sever. For the words spoken now for many years by Sheriff Fahburn were spoken on the came occasion by his predecessors for more then a hundred years before his day. The calling to order of the "assembly" of black-gowned students, their families, and the customary "puellae" is one of the oldest of Harvard traditions...
...left the Metropolitan, took over the San Francisco Orchestra for $10,000 a year. There followed months of strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...
...Premier then distributed $100,000 in prizes for the best results in growing wheat. Farmers and humble peasants, abashed but proud, marched on to a raised platform and there were kissed on both cheeks by Il Duce amid the plaudits of the populace...