Word: platformization
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...Northfield Conferences and summer schools. The call for the gatherings is signed by William R. Moody, whose father, Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, established the conferences 32 years ago, three years after he had founded Northfield Seminary. There are really six conferences open to all conducted upon "the Northfield platform" which Mr. Moody defines with much emphasis in his invitation to the public...
...trend of Dean Briggs' and President Lowell's speeches was the same, with Dean Briggs adding that there was no danger in waiting, because shirts could be torn off in a great hurry, when necessity demanded it. In addition to the speakers, Bishop William Lawrence '71 sat on the platform...
...appearance of Mr. Norman Angell on the lecture platform at Harvard should call forth no less than a full house in Emerson D. The man who has treated a topic of such vital importance in this age of acute attention to questions of political science, with such a combination of inspired prophetic zeal and scientific accuracy that he has seen it translated into sixteen foreign tongues and run through four American editions in this short time, deserves the greatest attention. Pacifists or belligerents we may be, we cannot escape the question "Why is war?" Mr. Angell has received attention from...
...popular favor, and from ambition to rise from the masses. He wanted distinction, power, and wanted it while he was alive. Did he, then, put political sincerity and integrity aside in his thirst for fame? That he wavered in his choice of parties, that he completely reversed his platform, aroused suspicions on this score. Yet he was less inconsistent than Peel and Gladstone; he was in constant sympathy with the people, as is shown by the tenor of the laws which he urged, and he invariably appears as the great and public spirited statesman...
...chief speakers will be Captain Storer and Coach Haughton. The latter will give a talk on the fine points of football, which will be illustrated by lantern slides showing some of the plays in the big games of the past season. The team will sit on the platform as the guests of honor, and the affair will be enlivened by singing and cheering. A. F. Pickernell '14 and E. Streeter '14 have composed lyrics to popular tunes especially for this occasion. A. F. Pickernell '14 and J. R. O. Perkins '14 will entertain with amusing dialogues and S. Adams...