Word: american
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...SPEECH.William Henry Cox was the second speaker for Yale. He said that, while political parties were a necessity as an agency to unite action, allegiance to them might readily become blind and therefore disastrous to the country. In becoming a willing follower of certain political leaders, the American citizen loses his individuality and tends to transfer the power from the people to the politicians. Such action is narrowminded and bigoted, and tends to overthrow the fundamental principles of American government. From party allegiance has arisen political corruption, and this is the deadliest enemy of political life. Bribery, ballot-box stealing...
Such an attitude may be noble from a sentimental point of view, but is it practical from the standpoint of results? The opposing side had agreed that it was independent action when the American patriots revolted from England, but it had been overlooked that it was by party organization alone that the patriots were enabled to carry out their purpose. Washington assembled an army, he did not tell every man to take his musket and fight independently. If the independents would descend from the heights of sentiment and enter vigorously into the life of some party, their work would...
MEMBERS of the Electric Club and others who wish to inspect the American Bell Telephone Co. 's plant, will kindly send me their names on a postal, as parties of a dozen or so will be arranged in the near future...
...January number of the Quarterly Journal of Economics appears an article written by Carlos E. Closson, Jr., '92, on "The Unemployed in American Cities." At this time, when the whole country is still in such financial difficulty, and so many thrown out of employment, a subject of this sort is of especial interest. Mr. Closson has gone to great pains to find the real conditions of the unemployed classes in all the great cities in the United States. Most of his information has been obtained from some three hundred replies received to a circular of inquiry sent to public officials...
Professor Thayer is doing a work with his Bible class which is worthy of consideration. American colleges today are paying more and more attention to the systematic study of the Bible and this study, though generally left optional, is being pursued more and more generally by college men. There was a time when the reading of the Bible among young college men was left very largely to the divinity students. This was before people felt that the Bible could be read and studied as simple literature. Now all this is changed, and the man who knows nothing of the stories...