Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale men requested one hundred seats saved for themselves and friends, Wellesley has fifty, the Annex thirty and other colleges smaller numbers. Prominent graduates and members of the faculty will occupy the platform. The seats have all practically been given out, and an audience that will completely fill the hall is assured...
...beforehand. When the crowd came poring in on him he was overwhelmed with demands. The electric service of the car was allowed no sleep: bells were singing incessambly. The train was an hour late in starting so the men had a masquerade ball and athletic games on the station platform. Pink, red, and blue bath robes were in order together with dress suits and users. It was a weird spectacte and caused no end of amusement. Finally the train started. The rattle-brained porter became more and more perplexed and even the mildest natures in the car used their superlative...
...Easton of the University of Pennsylvania is the author of a new book entitled "Observations on the Platform of Persepolis...
Best general references: Nation LII, 104 (Feb. 5, 1891), LI. 84 (July 31, 1890); People's Party Platform adopted at Omaha July 4, 1892, in the leading dalies of July 5th, H. R. Chamberlain, Farmer's Alliance...
...Populist party seeks to aggregate rather than to lessen class distinctions; Public Opinion IX, 386-408. - (a) The extravagances of the platform prove this; see platform. - (b) In its eagerness to fight monopolists the Populist party has adopted ridiculus and inconsistent theories: Public Opinion X, 610; Nation...