Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that time President a. R. Sweezy '29 will give a short talk to the Sophomore and Junior candidates who wish to try out for one of the four departments. He will outline the general character of CRIMSON competitions and will then turn the candidates over to the department heads...
...Sweezy '29 president of the CRIMSON is the first speaker on the program and he will out line the advantages of working on the college daily. He will be followed by A. R. Blackburn '29, president of the Lampoon, who in turn will defend his own journal against the other extracuricular activities. Robeson Bailey '29, president of the Advocate, will represent the third college paper...
...prosperity, of our stability, of our hope of further progress at this time is the measure of what we may risk through a change in present policies. More than once in our national history a change in policies in a time of advancement has been quickly followed by a turn toward disaster...
...James William Good knows it. It is very much like being an apostolic missionary. Sometimes you have to wrestle for a man's political soul for hours and hours. Sometimes you can win him in a trice with a ponderous period. And tiresome though it is to turn out ponderous periods, life is often brightened by the gorgeous retorts of the heathen. For example, this is the answer one Hooverizer got when he approached an insurgent South Dakota editor: "I am for Hoover just about as far as you can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with...
Vice President Richmond Dean is the hero of Pullman car naming. When the Pullman Co. took over the Wagner Sleeping Car, at the exact turn of the century, it was discovered that 300 cars bore duplicate names. Mr. Dean spent a restless afternoon and evening. On a sudden inspiration, he had the Chicago public library opened. With a corps of clerks, he delved into ancient history, Greek, Roman. Within 24 hours he gave heroic and antique christening...