Word: platformization
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...last month the editorial and communication column of the Yale 'News' has been the no-man's land in the struggle between the reformists and their more conservative opponents, with the "News" itself leading the reform campaign. Its platform is the abolition of compulsory chapel and the bestowal of unlimited cuts on those of high scholarship. One feature of this campaign was a straw vote which showed undergraduate opinion to be decisively in support of the proposed reforms...
...daily program will consist, as in former years, of discussion groups and platform meetings, and among the lecturers are Dean W. L. Sperry of the Theological School, and the Reverend H. E. Fosdick, D.D., professor of Practical. Theology at Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. The object of the conference is to discuss social, religious, and economic problems of the day, a series of lectures being given by men who are leaders in these fields...
Recently his Honor, the Mayor of Boston had occasion to refuse the invitation to sit on the same lecture platform with Admiral Sims in the words...
...have no desire to sit on any platform with Admiral Sims, retired, whose best service to the American Navy was his retirement from it. I would suggest that when he is done shooting off the only weapon he is expert at--his mouth--he be escorted to the Cunard or White Star dock and given an opportunity to follow the trail and example of his ante-type, Benedict Arnold...
Following is the platform of the Conservative Club as announced after a meeting yesterday evening...