Word: republican
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Blaine, was greeted with prolonged applause by the Cleveland members of the committee. This shout was, however, immediately quelled, when the chairman of the junior class sub-committee, announced the strong Blaine vote of that class. When the sophomore and freshman classes followed in favor of the republican nominee, the Cleveland men were subdued, but had their hopes raised by the returns from the graduates and Law School. But to be again disappointed, for Blaine proved to be the favorite at Harvard College by a small plurality, and therefore the choice of the students. The republican procession seems...
This makes it a question of some importance and it should receive attention, and not be shelved in the Republican favor by the plea of "custom," a plea which plays too large a part in the present Republican campaign. The college is made up of students from all parts of the nation, many of them voters, all more or less interested in and acquainted with political questions, and if the students are going to take part in a political demonstration at all, it is fitting it should be done after deliberation and with a purpose, and not in servile acquiescence...
...which should interest all young men, whether they are voters or not and it is to be hoped that the students by making a change this year and marching in the Cleveland and Hendricks procession (which is not to be Democratic, but made up of Democrats and independent Republicans alike) will do their best to strike a blow at official corruption and show disapprobation of the present course of the Republican party. It may at least tend to show the party leaders what to expect from this large body of men who will nearly all be voters when the next...
...meeting of the Blaine and Logan club of the Law School yesterday afternoon the following officers were elected: President, C. R. Saunders of Cambridge; vice president, S. Norris, Jr., of Bristol, R. I.; secretary, T. C. Batchelder of Boston. The club voted to parade in the regular Republican torchlight procession and a committee consisting of the president, Bertram Ellis, and H. H. Crapo, is to have charge of all the arrangements for the parade...
...mass meeting of the students of the Massachusetis Institute of Technology the vote was 259 for Blaine and only 85 for Cleveland. The Tech will therefore march in the Republican procession...