Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the executive committee of the Hoover League of Harvard it was decided to disband. This action was taken in view of the fact that undergraduate, interest in the Presidential campaign has lapsed during the last few weeks, and because the straw ballot has been held...
Either something has happened lately to humor or something has happened to the Lampoon's alumni. The Graduates' Number, just off the presses today, surely is no feather in the old-timer's straw hat this spring...
...come at last, and our Beau Brummels announce that it is up to each and every one to lay aside the friendly, battered old felt headgear for its lighter and more modish cousin, the "boater." But for many the change presents difficulties. With prices soaring even higher than a "straw" in a heavy gale, and with rueful memory of the fact that Max received the hat of yester-year in return for necessary movie fare last autumn, what is there left for the woeful student...
...track men are in luck, for they at least can beat down our much flaunted enemy, H. C. L., by showing the Blue runners the way to the tape in the games this afternoon, and thus cornering the straw market at the "Coop." Meanwhile the proletariat in the cheering sections can only jingle loose pennies in the pockets of their ulsters, well-worn by frequent use in the last few weeks, and find paltry satisfaction in the alibi supplied by the Weather...
...unhappily "Harvard indifference" is not yet a matter for the reminiscences of graybeards alone. Side by side with the encouraging results of the straw vote, we are again reminded that the three lower classes have been forced to consider an amendment to their constitution to guard against the too frequent occurrence of a minority election of class officers. While some remedy is undoubtedly necessary, it is a great pity that the necessity was ever allowed to arise. The undergraduate has been told by the outside world that he is the "hope of the future," until he can almost feel himself...