Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...87th year by ruminating upon womankind's increasing importance in the world. At Wellesley, Mass., some 400 girls became Wellesley College freshmen, were made welcome by the Christian Association at a tea; by President Ellen F. Pendleton; by guides who spirited them off in groups of twelve to tour the Library. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Vassar College, in its 63rd year, abandoned a precedent, allowed the freshmen to report the same day as other classes, instead of a week earlier. The enrollment was kept down, as of late years, to 1,150. President Henry Noble MacCracken was heard...
Pennsylvanian, Attorney General in the Wilson Cabinet, commented on a report that President Coolidge would make a campaign tour of the country: "I hope he will. It would be a splendid thing for the Democratic Party. The people would get a chance to see him and learn his limitations...
...continue optimistic, promise to carry Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington, Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas, Oklahoma and possibly California, Kansas, Arizona, Illinois. Wisconsin seems pretty cer tain. In the Republican primary there, the insurgent Congressmen who had been supporting LaFollette were all renominated with substantial majorities. Meanwhile, Senator Wheeler has continued his tour of New England, telling the mill hands: "When the people of the West got tired of their Congressmen, they got others. You can do the same. When their Senators were creatures of corruption, they changed them. You can do the same." Leaving New England, he burst into upstate New -York...
...Hayes has returned to the U. S. After a month's rest, he will tour from Coast to Coast, starting in Brooklyn...
According to the Transcript, Dr. Meiklejohn had spent most of his time, since resigning and making a country-wide lecture tour, in conferring with friends and associates over plans for a $3,000,000 "independent" college. A site had not been picked, but it seemed likely some abandoned school plant might be bought for reasons of economy. The faculty had not been announced, but would probably include a number of Amherst professors who resigned with Dr. Meiklejohn. The en dowment millions and the new student body were still missing, but were doubtless to be recruited among people who have confidence...