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...fitting accommodation for a successful dance. The next alternative considered, a Boston dance hall, was vetoed by the College authorities; and recourse was finally had to be Union. Expressions of dissatisfaction, with the theory and past experience of the dance were so numerous throughout the controversy that a poll was taken to determine the consensus, of class opinion. The result was indecisive on account of the meagre response to the ballots sent out, but it was nevertheless decided to go on with the affair inasmuch as a majority of the votes received were in favor of such a course...
Finance Minister Hilferding did not survive this second upset. Over the weekend he resigned, took with him his right hand man, State Secretary Johannes Popitz. President Paul von Hindenburg scratched his grizzled poll, appointed Minister of Economics Paul Moldenhauer to be Temporary. Minister of Finance...
...officials selected by the Conference as a result of the poll last spring are announced by Mr. Clark as follows: E. M. Kelleher of Cambridge, M. W. Souders of Milton, G. W. Hoyt of Boston, James Parker of Everett, R. Jackson of Springfield, D. J. Kelly of Cambridge, T. P. Shea of Spring field, H. A. Swaifield of Fairfield, Conn J. N. Young of North Adams, R. Dillon of Hartford, Conn O. Tower of Andover, W. F. Coady of Boston, L. E. Ball of Amherst, J. P. Haughy of Pawtucket, R. I. J. LeCain of Springfield, H. McGinness of Brighton...
...possibility that, if the demand warrants it, there will be a third performance, on the evening of December 4, W. B. Cowan Jr. '29, production manager for two years as an undergraduate, will coach the plays. He will also play the part of Monsteur le Pic in 'Poll de Carotte...
...back in years as 1888 or '89 I, then a teacher in a public school in a small New York town (Bernhard's Bay) near my home town, became interested in this subject, and when my school of two rooms was polled it was learned that the children, to a soul, voted for the columbine. Since then at different times, I have endeavored to interest people in this subject of the columbine as a national flower; and just happening to read the May Nature magazine, I discovered that the subject of a national flower is being brought forward...