Word: platformization
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Away with these bygone days! With debates on the League of Nations, strikes, and professional football, we should like to consign them to the nethermost fire! We want more and wider pathways; a dry and firm footing on the road to knowledge. Our platform has but four planks--all of them to be used to widen the present walks...
...Moines to the students of Canada and America to aid in the work of missions abroad. Cablegrams from Hungary, and Cairo, and Central Africa, from the Russian student prisoners, from Buenos Ayres and Shanghai and Bulgaria were received on New Year's day and read from the platform by John R. Mott, the Chairman of the Conference--cable grams from men in the field, greeting the Conference and reiterating the plea for help. The opening speakers outlined the great progress of the Student Volunteer Movement, and showed by word and picture the immensity and vital importance to Americans...
Almost four hours behind time, the victorious University football squad arrived at the South Station about midnight last night, where a group of undergraduates met them as they pulled in. As they came down the platform the team was greeted by the cheers of the men who had gone in to welcome them. About 350 undergraduates represented the student body at the station, and their enthusiasm proved to the squad the University's pride in the Crimson victory...
Experiments in catapaulting the present type of machine, dependent for a start upon the swift passage of air over lift-creating planes, have increased the general interest in the possible development of the helicopter. In these experiments the machine is shot off a starting platform, much as a dart is thrown in the air. The start is so swift that the machine is able to pick up its flying speed and continue flight with its own engine...
Seldom, in a single evening from the same platform, does one have the opportunity of hearing three speakers of international prominence. By securing the presence of President Lowell, Governor Coolidge and Viscount Grey, the management of the Union is continuing its policy of making it possible for its members to listen to some of the leading figures of America and Europe...