Word: platformization
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Those people who believed that the election of Senator Harding to the Presidency would mean the death of the League of Nations may now take hope. The situation is not nearly so dark as it is painted. The Republican platform pledges the party to work for an international organization in the interests of peace, and it does not condemn as an entirely the present existing league. There is no longer any need for misrepresenting the Republican position which is so evidently at variance with the claims of both Johnson...
...University eleven one of the greatest ovations that a Crimson team has ever received. Time after time the men who packed the Living Room to its utmost capacity and overflowed into the hallways rose en masse and cheered steadily for several minutes. When the eleven walked up onto the platform, R. W. Emmons ocC. led cheers for each member of the team and then W. H. Trumbull '15 spoke...
...contributors to the fund was C. S. Joslyn '20, who won the $6000 prize for submitting the best model platform for the Republican Party. The letter accompanying the check reads as follows...
...next Tuesday evening, November 2, a special wire, connected with the Western Union's countrywide service, will bring complete election returns to the Living Room of the Union. The separate returns as they come in from every state and section of the country will be announced from the platform by megaphone, while the grand totals will be figured on a large blackboard. The University Band will play at intervals throughout the evening until 11 o'clock. It has been arranged to telephone the totals of the returns, as they are received at the Union, to the Graduate School of Education...
While the present system obtains, we fail to find any incentive for casting a vote in the class elections. There is no platform; there are no issues to be decided. Personal preference, then, is the sole reason for forming a decision; and when that does not exist, as it generally does not, the inducement for casting a vote disappears...