Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March, the University team will compete in three other intercollegiate matches this winter. The first of these will be against the Norwich University riders on January 16, at North field, Vermont. The Norwich team will leave shortly after the contest with Harvard for a trip through the Middle West. The Yale date has been set for March 6, and the Crimson polo trio will go to New Haven, if this match does not conflict with the intercollegiate championship for which the date has not been definitely set. The third match will be with the West Point Cadets at West Point...
Colonel Wedgewood is spending ten days in Boston, and spoke yesterday at a gathering of single tax men. He will go from here to New York, and will then proceed west, stopping in Detroit and Chicago. "After my trip west," he concluded, I intend to return to my own country immediately, feeling that I have done my the towards teaching the American people their own business...
...been written of New England's rum and codfish aristocracy. Fiske's guileless picture of the Constitutional Convention, newer authors have reformed. The wealth, business, and lineage of the "Fathers" have been analysed to prove the Constitution but a bulwark of property. While the rise apace of the new west was so much a matter of fields, food, and transportation that less hardy, influences have been easily forgotten...
...feuds, has almost succumbed to the general apathy, as it half-heartedly pursues an economic policy drawn along traditional laisser-faire lines sprinkled with an occasional dash of progressivism. Perhaps the most active opposition to the Administration comes from that ever changing group of insurgent senators from the Middle West, but their inconsistency and diversity in political creeds have rendered them annoying rather than dangerous foes of the existing order...
...plan has worked well until this fall, when Horatio Parker's 'Lamp in the West' was announced as the prize song for the 1926 contest. Harvard immediately protested, again on the ground of musical inferiority, called attention to the unanimous consent agreement and requested that another song be chosen...