Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ritchie does not think it wise. "We have drifted too far down the stream of Federal centralization," he believes. Washington has become the home of a bureaucratic system, "remote from the people with burdensome, perplexing laws, lacking popular sanction, red tape and the general incompetence of subordinates performing duties of responsibility." The reason for this is "because progressive men anxious to bring about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles...
...very interesting supplement to the CRIMSON poll," he continued, "would be to take votes at various other places such as the Harvard Square subway station from 8 to 9 o'clock in the morning, or a corner drug store, or a popular cafeteria. The net result of these different polls would represent a cross section of public opinion and would be a real service to democracy...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra will give a varied program of classical and popular numbers at the Harvard Club of Boston, Sunday evening at 8.15 o'clock. The numbers to be presented are: "Triumph March" Beethoven "Egmont Overture" Beethoven "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn "March from 'Aida'" Verdi "Woodland Sketches" MacDowell "Rustle of Spring" Sinding "Narcissus" Nevin
...Hoover boom, the Lowden boom, the Dawes boom, and various other major and minor booms before the delegates assemble--how far short of a majority any single candidate remains, how available the engineers of the convention consider a candidate from the Middle West, strong in the Senate, popular with the farmers and yet no fire eater...
Last spring the boxing tournament was the most popular and most successful in many years. Of the 38 men entered, 14 reached the finals, in which seven University ring champions were crowned. The final battles at Hemenway drew a crowd of 600 students. There was only one knockout during the evening's bouts, that scored by R. E. Johnson '27 over Ira Markwett '28 in the initial round of the 175 pound final. The feature bout, however, was in the 145 pound class, where G. N. Burns '29 outpointed E. A. Sachs '28, displaying better condition and a superior ability...