Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican, Democratic, and La Follette Clubs have united on one question. They are all agreed that something must be done to enlighten those men who, having reached voting age, are entitled to cast their ballots but who are away from home...
...campaign there had never been any question as to which party the torchlight procession represented,--Harvard had always been Republican. In 1884, however, the Union of the Independent and Democratic parties injected a new question into the plans for the procession. Was there to be one procession representing the majority of Harvard opinion or two separate parades, representative of both Democratic and Republican parties...
...this lack of unanimity. The Chairman of the Independent Democratic forces, supporting Cleveland and Hendricks, appealed to the class of 1885 to join the Democratic ranks because Massachusetts Institute of Technology had thrown in their lot on the side of the Democrats, a fact which was untrue. An angry Republican immediately wrote the CRIMSON and said, "Now it may be asked if Harvard can, in respect to itself, turn out with a party which takes such shady methods to secure our presence in its ranks...
This plea seems to have had the desired effect. When it was announced that a straw vote taken by the Union had resulted in the selection of the Republican candidate, James G. Blaine, by a vote of 483 to 462, all classes in the University pledged themselves to abide by the decision of the majority and unite in a Republican parade...
...were asked to wear plug hats. The order of march consisted of first the Cambridge Police Force and then the Drum Corps, Senior class, Junior class, University Band, Sophomore class, Freshman class, hired band, Law School, Medical School, graduates and carriages, containing the football team and leaders of the Republican party at college. The procession marched from the Charles Street Jail, up Commonwealth Avenue, down as far as Dartmouth Street to Boylston, past the Brunswick Hotel, where Mr. Blaine reviewed it, to Columbus Avenue, through to the South End, and finally into the business section...