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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general argument, without explaining that the Gompers quotation had reference to Government operation of railroads and that alone. These things about the "Socialism" speech made it sound like just another political speech, and bad politics at that, because Nominee Smith was left with an obvious retort. Moreover, as any student of recent political history knew, many a member of Nominee Hoover's own party stood with or near Nominee Smith on the specific proposals described as "social-istic." Vice President Dawes, for example, who had spoken just before Nominee Hoover from the Manhattan platform, had long been an archproponent...
There he might find it. It's a pity, almost, that Presidential campaigns don't come oftener. Harvard undergraduates seem to have lost the faculty of lifting themselves out of themselves among familiar surroundings, and grave doubts have arisen as to the possibility of any sublimation of the student personality. But six weeks have wrought a revelation. Anyone who has seen--and heard--his friend who is wrapped up most of the time in thirteenth-century Italy become a member of the electorate will admit...
Yesterday afternoon in response to the presentation of the problem to the Executive Committee by the Student Council, the proposition of vagabonding classes was sanctioned for trial. Vagabonding, auditing, or hoboing classes is not a new idea by any means. Begun at Yale and Harvard several years ago, it has since spread to many of the larger institutions, being the same in principle at most of them, and allowing the student with a vacant hour to attend a lecture outside his own curriculum, providing he takes a seat that is otherwise vacant and creates no disturbance or does not consider...
...tentative plan the Committee will, through the Deans and Heads of Schools, announce such lectures as may be of interest to the student, also announcing its place, time, and extra capacity of the room. Any student wishing to listen to the lecture is privileged to do so without any difficulty whatsoever. --The Purdue Daily Exponent...
...Note: The practice of "vagabonding" lecturers was begun in the colleges of the country with the institution by the CRIMSON of "The Student Vagabond" in the fall of 1926. The plan has been adopted by a number of colleges since that time...