Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience is a collaborative partner in any play, and the type of play which will be shown is the type they vote for by buying tickets. I agree that technically plays have improved, but culturally they have sunk, and the cultural loss in the technical gain...
Henchman A. Rodney Baxter was reported to have cried: "See that your wives, daughters, sweethearts and bartenders get out and vote for him [John W. Smith]." Henchman Baxter later denied having said "bartenders...
...Massachusetts Agricultural College teams on the Charles River course this afternoon. The Freshman race will start at 3.30 o'clock, while the University harriers will start at 4 o'clock. The Freshmen will elect a captain following the race today. All men on the Freshman squad are eligible to vote in the election...
...question debated in 1922 was the proposed entrance of the United States into the League of Nations. The University won on the negative of this question, by an audience vote of 1614 to 1000. In 1923 the French occupation of the Ruhr Valley, involving the whole question of reparations payments by Germany, was debated, and Oxford won, 1748 to 519, on its opposition to the French action...
...almost a unanimous vote, it was decided that the aims of the Debating Union in promoting informal speaking were identical with those of the Sophomore body...