Word: platformization
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...party platform is the definition of the means by which a party hopes to perpetuate the welfare of the nation, and is founded on moral principles quite as important as those underlying the struggle for Civil Service Reform. The welfare of society has been at times considered the object of all government. It is the avowed object of a political party. And, when a man in whose hands the welfare of the people has been entrusted by a great commonwealth, can be persuaded to come here and explain the principles and methods by which some of the greatest intellects...
...their officers, the faculty in a body, the representatives of the Corporation and Overseers, and finally the new-comers, graduates, Law School men, college freshmen, entering and seeing at a glance in the great assemblage something of what Harvard is? Then, as this year, representative students on the platform to speak as they only can speak to other students. Would not such a ceremony be one long remembered by the new arrivals? Would it not give the younger among them, especially, a truer understanding of the fact that they have become members of a University which is not all architecture...
...think of any respect in which it could have been more thoroughly satisfactory. The enthusiastic applause with which it was received showed that this was the common feeling of the whole large audience, a large part of whom were college students. The faculty, however, were well represented on the platform, where were also Miss Terry and several other members of the company...
Seats on the floor and platform are reserved for holders of faculty tickets. All other seats in the house are open to holders of white admission tickets. The holders of the red tickets for standing room will be admitted at the Kirkland street entrance only. The Kirkland street door will be closed until 4 o'clock. It is, therefore, advisable for those having reserved seats and white admission tickets to present the same before 4 o'clock...
Members of the faculty, Mr. Irving's party including Miss Terry, a few friends and some members of his company will occupy seats on the platform...