Word: stump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their votes. The whole affair was exploited by the press as an instance of the traditional "Harvard Indifference". Various communications were written explaining that many students preferred not to vote, than to vote for men about whom they knew nothing. Campaign speeches were suggested each candidate to take the stump or soap-box and describe to an interested group of student listeners the principles on which he based his claim to popular support. This motion, however, was not seconded...
...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...
...they are having quite a little discussion as to whether they ought to permit the Darwinian theory of evolution to be taught in the state-supported schools. "The entire state", we are told, "has been aroused by allegations made on both sides"; William Jennings Bryan has even consented to stump for the "antis". The main opposition comes from the rural districts where the opinions of the distinguished biologist are held to be contrary to the Bible "as it is written". Evidently the people of Kentucky are unwilling to admit that "Bo" McMillin and his team are descended from anything...
There may be an ulterior motive behind this Moscow speech. Indeed, one half suspects that Lenine's self-asserted sang-froid and voluble explanations are intended more for home consumption than for that foreign trade for which he angles. The speech has all the ear-marks of the bludgeoning stump oration. The Russians have listened to that style of address for so long that it is safe to assume that they still give it credence. But to those outside the spell of Lenine's mastery of words, it is apparent that Russia, having wasted her own resources, would now borrow...
...Roosevelt Club is especially interested at the present moment in securing stump-speakers from among the members of the University, feeling that there must be a considerable number of men who would gladly give their services in the interest of the Democratic Party...