Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite a century later, the activities of Harvard undergraduates in carrying out religiously the spirit and the letter of the "Hard Cider" campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", led to certain unpleasantness with officials in Cambridge-port. Campaigns in the "Colleges in Cambridge in New England" have always been featured by torch-light processions stump-speeches, charges and counter-charges as vigorous and often as vituperative as those in an alderman's election in a closely contested ward...
Were this fact to be admitted by the gentlemen who make such laws, the great majority of our immigration difficulties could be averted. You cannot handle immigration as you do the tariff. The only fair way to settle the perplexity is to allow the officials at each port of entry more personal discretion in the judgment of the various cases--to make the Quota Law itself more flexible, more capable of expansion as necessity arises. Unless this is done the comic opera ending in tragedy, will continue to be enacted. And all this is quite apart from the consideration...
...Boston's port, according to the Herald, is "lapsing into a condition of innocuous desuetude." And Professor Ripley, in urging the rehabilitation of New England railroads, says: "This must take place through a mustering of all the financial resources of the region, public as well as private, if necessary. The industrial preservation of New England demands it. The present plight is avowedly critical...
...Contrary to the beliefs of many, the war proved that a certain amount of unified control was beneficial to the railroads. But more fundamental than any plan of reorganization, and a necessary preliminary to such a plan, is an adjustment of the rate difficulty. As long as Boston's port is stagnant, a large source of business for New England's railroads remains unproductive. It has been pointed out especially that Boston is the natural outlet for a large share of the Canadian trade. But this trade, as well as most of that from other sources, is being diverted from...
...officers of the Student Council for the year 1921-22, elected at the Student Council meeting Wednesday night, have been announced as follows: President, Richard Chute '22, of Boston; Vice-President, Richmond Keith Kane '22, of New port, Rhode Island; Secretary-Treasurer, Myles Pierce Baker '22, of Cambridge. The executive committee will consist of Arthur Joseph Conlon '22, of Cambridge. The executive committee will consist of Arthur Joseph Conion '22, of Winchester and Mitchell Gratwick '22, of Buffalo, the three officers, and two juniors to be elected...