Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Class Day exercises took place the day before. A large audience filled Huntington Hall and the class occupied the platform and floor of the hall. The Technology Glee Club and Quartette and the Salem Cadet Orchestra furnished music. The class historian was L. A. Ferguson; statistician, S. Warren, and bard, O. B. Roberts. The Class Day officers were as follows: Chief marshal, A. T. Bradlee; marshals, R. Devens, H. F. Bigelow and H. J. Horn, Jr.; Class Day committee, H. D. Bates, H. F. Bigelow, A. T. Bradlee, G. E. Claflin, H. G. Cross, G. U. G. Holman...
...would promote the welfare of the country by carrying out its principles of (a) a respectable foreign policy; (b) the suppression of Mormonism; (c) a free ballot and an honest count. References: The Philadelphia Press, Jan. 4, 1888; Stanwood's Presidential Elections; "Platform Promises," 1864-1884 (MS. pamphlet...
...Gericke stepped upon the platform, he was greeted with a some what warmer reception than usual. The orchestra seemed to catch the spirit and gave one of the finest concerts for several seasons...
...voted to use as a club-room in future, the large back room in the second story of Dane Hall. The committee appointed to furnish the room has done its best with the limited sum allowed them. The middle of the room has been curtained off and a platform built at one end of the room. A piano and chairs have been put in, and some French flags are to be draped on the walls. Already the room has a cheerful aspect, and the society is preparing for an active winter. Besides the periodic lectures, it is intended to have...
...appeared in the daily papers concerning college matters with a great deal of charity. If we remember rightly, the CRIMSON and Advocate were the prime movers of this wise plan; and now our friends, regardless of the good principles which they then advanced, have come down from their noble platform and allowed themselves to give utterance to words which we are charitable enough to believe must only be the expression of feelings peculiarly wrought up at the present time...