Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Evans Hughes began a sustained Republican effort in Missouri. There are 18 electoral votes in Missouri. The usual complexion of the State is: Republican in and about wet, German-populated St. Louis; Democratic in the dry, farming western reaches. This year, the wet German-Americans, led by oldtime-brewer August Adolph Busch, have inclined sharply to Smith. Farm unrest impeded a compensating swing to Hoover in the west. To St. Joseph, on the extreme western edge of Missouri, went Campaigner Hughes to praise the Hoover record, to admit that "the Republican Party was betrayed in its own house...
...officials in the middle of December, enabling competitions for minor positions to start the middle of January. In addition, the work of the board will be lightened by the fact that all the individual photographs will baxe by that time been taken. The Red Book will be issued as usual on the day of the Jubilee, leaving a total of four and a half months in which to do less work than was formerly done in two and a half months...
Resides attending to the general activities of the class the committee is going to endeavor especially to eradicate some of the minor faults in the Red Book management and try to get it started earlier. The council will also busy itself with the usual Freshman smokers which take place in the fall...
Coach Cowles expects as usual to start the annual fall tennis tournament immediately following the report of candidates. From the men who star in the tournament play a squash team will be picked to begin their tutelage under the University coach. Although the squash schedule has not as yet been definitely announced, it is expected that it will be completed soon...
...welcomed at a time when classical music is deriving too little active undergraduate support. Although having its origin in the College employment office, it offers an unusually satisfactory mode of helping a few men over the financial obstacles of higher education. Certainly more attractive superficially than the usual student positions which involve the climbing of innumerable staircases or the washing of many dishes, the orchestra also offers training in an art which is valuable both financially and esthetically in after life...